I’ve been making documentaries since before it was cool. In fact, for a long time, it was downright questionable.

I’d spend all day in a silk robe writing novels if I could.

I had twins while making a film about twins (each one married to a twin), with co-producers who were mothers of twins. Clearly, it was contagious.

I spent a year of living dangerously in Malaysia working for the US Embassy and learning to eat durian fruit.

I made my first film in Patagonia. When you begin your career at the bottom of the world, you can only go up.

I've made 2 expeditions in the Amazon.

I love to dance salsa and read Magic Realism (but not at the same time).

I was a camp counselor in the Poconos in my teens. Now, I help run an artist's residency in the South of France. My summer job has not changed. The location certainly has.

Pickles are my favorite snack.

"Wings of Desire" is my favorite movie.

I really don't have favorite things. 

I once spent an entire evening in Paris with Joni Mitchell. I've never recovered.