Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

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.

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

Racism is not funny, because it won't solve anything, but making it worst instead, because racism is the reason the world is no longer great.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

Toyota has announced it will start integrating Microsoft technology into their vehicles. It's perfect for the person who wants a car that crashes every ten minutes.

I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know.

Striving can be more important than arriving.

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

The internet will create the winnerand bury the laggards.