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.

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.

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

My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard and lonely and decidedly unglamorous. Find like-minded souls and share the joy and the misery.

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a scale commensurate with the millions of people around the world that are mired in poverty.