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

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.

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.

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

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

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.