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

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.

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

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

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

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 an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.

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.

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.

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.

If you want to live forever, give yourself away for others.

Everyone gets obsessed with anti-aging but I'd rather look as good as I can at the age I am.

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave

Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.

Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that?

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.