If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.

Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a curse.

We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies.

You can just imagine the restrictions of shooting in a prison, but I just decided I'm going to embrace those restrictions sometimes when you don't have many choices you can make the best choices.

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.

It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

As we receive, we give.

You can only make magic if you act at the right time when the right conditions are in place

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.

The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.