I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.

Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.

Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample to show broadcasters and grant organizations.

It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to support a project when they don't know the outcome.

Learning how to do some of the technical work on the film can be helpful too and allows you to start the film on your own. However, if you are passionate about an idea, just begin.

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

If you love your craft there will be passion. Most of my films are with people who are really passionate about what they are doing and know how to do something well.

My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.

Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what’s in front of you

Scripture, empowered by God’s Spirit, is the instrument that brings people to salvation.

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where?

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

I was the one that allegedly "quit and joined my old band." That wasn't true. But it was said so matter-of-factly on the Internet that the guys weren't really sure what I was up to.

Just to be on set with Amy Poehler, who's one of my heroes, was a total dream come true.

I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots