1. “If you just think about the difficulty you’ll never get anywhere.”
2. “I don’t think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.”
3. “I’ve been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers.”
4. “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 expert on movies.”
5. “Mental health treatment s 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.”
6. “You can just imagine the restrictions of shooting in a prison, but I just decide I’m going to embrace those restrictions sometimes when you don’t have many choices you can make the best choices.”
7. “I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.”
8. “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.”
9. “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 avoid it just being other people’s memories and interpretations.”
10. “We don’t see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.”
