I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.