Pamela Yates

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social…

— Pamela Yates

If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.

— Pamela Yates

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

— Pamela Yates

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

— Pamela Yates

Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

— Pamela Yates

I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit…

— Pamela Yates

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not…

— Pamela Yates

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines…

— Pamela Yates

My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with.…

— Pamela Yates

The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of…

— Pamela Yates

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

— Pamela Yates

I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and…

— Pamela Yates

The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as…

— Pamela Yates

I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema…

— Pamela Yates

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

— Pamela Yates