Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as hard as it ever was. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of my films… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
