I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, must be the same person when she finishes telling a story as she was at the start. But I want to be transformed by my filmmaking, by the journey I take.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

I see myself as a story teller.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves that our lives are in sympathy and solidarity with the victims.

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.