There's a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, "You're the guy who has to tell this story because nobody else is."

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

You have to remain open to the situation that you're filming otherwise you might miss the story.

What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.

If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think.

The filmmaker is not telling you what to think.

If a concert film is an experience of the musicianship without critiquing it, then this, too, is dropping you into a world and letting you experience it.

I'm an observer in life, not a participant. That's why I'm a documentarian who looks through a camera. I'm not a touchy-feely person; I'm not a seminar person.

Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.

Wisdom is the spine of a business, money is its oxygen, and God is its strength and life.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.

You try to take it game-to-game and keep working.

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.