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

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.

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

How do you say, 'Do things for me without me asking you to' since in saying that, you are asking them?

Because when you cared about people, you handed them a little piece of your heart, and with those hands, they had the power to cause pain.

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

I love a little bit of glamour and I love tall girls.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.