All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

What I'm documenting can be hard to distill, because it's all around us like the air we breathe. I often need to go to a place where I can capture extreme moments.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.

I focus on a lot of women's issues.

When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

The independent project, in a general way, requests a constant work to spread, in the traditional way and in the alternative circuit. It is a fight... but I believe that it is the way.

Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.

We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.