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

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.

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 think in many ways what my films are about is that search for my grandpa's dentures: for that humanizing narrative that bridges the gap between "us" and "them" to arrive at a "we."

Self-determination and self-dedication will make the dream a reality.

What's the use of life without health? It's like living dead

In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution.

i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world

I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.