It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.

Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a curse.

We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies.

You can just imagine the restrictions of shooting in a prison, but I just decided I'm going to embrace those restrictions sometimes when you don't have many choices you can make the best choices.

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.

I think in many ways what my films are about is that search for my grandpa's dentures: for that humanizing narrative that bridges the gap between "us" and "them" to arrive at a "we."

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.

I'm always hungry to learn. I always look for something that I can study.

Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?" His eyes flared yellow "Is that a challenge?" "Yes it is.

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.

If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place!

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.