I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

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.

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.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.

If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.

Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.

I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!

Many people think I try to be like Lady Gaga but what they don't know is that I'm a Britney Spears wanna be.

As a writer I try to operate within a framework of Christian principles, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention.