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.

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.

I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

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

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.

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.