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 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.

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

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

Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

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.

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.