Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

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.

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.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

Her laughter was my favorite symphony.

A good book will surely become an event in your life.

I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.

If you can play the blues, you can do anything.