I don't make 'issue' films. I like making films about rebels or pioneers or people that are doing something.

I don't have any advice at all. I think we all make the films that reflect the kind of people we are; we all make such different films. There's not just one way of doing it.

The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.

Personally, I don't like watching films about victims - people where you're meant to think, 'Oh, this is terrible,' and you go home feeling really depressed.

I know that sounds contradictory - you're going on a journey, but once you know who your characters are, you become more disciplined and you film less and less.

I remember very clearly when I found my first soulmate, it was actually in my late 20s, that wonderful feeling of being accepted by people.

Time stops when you are in love, even as you age.

A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.”~Sherlock Holmes

Be at peace with yourself, or you'll be at war with everyone.

Hopelessness makes you a futile wanderer. Hope makes your life a wonder

I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.

Without a vision the people perish.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.