Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as hard as it ever was.

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.

I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no heads in front of mine, and become one with the screen. I always stay for the complete credits so I can linger in the film's story just a little longer.

If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.