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.

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.

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

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

True worship can only take place when we agree to God sitting not only on His throne in the center of the universe, but on the throne that stands in the center of our heart.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you..

I've sung other people's music all my life.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.