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

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'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

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

The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of my films are about people fighting for their rights and their quest for justice. My films aren't depressing, are very human, and always offer a way forward.

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

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