Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.
If you just think about the difficulty you'll never get anywhere.
Mental health treatment is 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.
In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.
I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered.
We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.
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.
Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.
People who drain others have a certain world they want to get to when they die, and you're their ticket!
I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.
Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.