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 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.

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

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.

Sand in reality is nothing else than very small stones.

Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.

Look beyond now.The road ahead offers a good voyage.

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me except that I have a slight stomach pain. Wait till I get my hospital bill! Then I'll really have a pain the stomach!

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.

"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.