I've been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers..

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 g….

I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or ….

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….

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..

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

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

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..

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 ha….

If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to….

The visual quality of the cameras now is such that you can shoot with available light, and if people are willing to mount a microphone on the camera ….

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 ch….

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

In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-l….

I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness..

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

With a living person you're always burdened with this idea of fair representation, treading this fine line between honoring the person, and yet you r….

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….

I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that ….

If you just think about the difficulty you'll never get anywhere..

My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I was twelve, my mom and I….