But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.

Future strong builds actions upon reflection, questions, curiosity, seeking to understand root causes and systemic connections.

You and Sven and Sven. You're my family. I like you and you like me and we all helped each other back there. So isn't that family?

This love is so deep it cannot be undone.

I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.

Prayer is humbly longing to know the Father’s will.

Happiness is a drug. It creates a biological change in the brain cells that inhibits negative feelings. Happiness boosts energy and increases energy in others.

UCF stayed with me all the way, so I felt I should stay with them.

It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.