Quotes

I come from a journalistic and political science background, so (...) I apply the scientific method to the way I tell a story, and (...) apply journalistic ethics to my work as a documentary filmmaker. The obligation of the documentary filmmaker (...) is to put people on screen in a truthful way.

I will say (...) that documentary and journalism are going through the same existential crisis. Both face the challenges of how to continue to exist in a world that is increasingly divided into ideological factions; how to continue telling relevant stories [of things] people never heard of; how to continue to tell human stories and, above all, how do we do all these things as independent beings.

(...) In Philip Knightley's thesis, in times of war the first casualty is always the truth. (...) Two factors there (...) are fake news, which lead us to the idea that we can question everything, including who is being truthful (...) and impartial, at which point a phenomenon called gaslighting arises - which is worse than fake news, because reality is itself in question (...) and so we also start to question our own mental sanity.