How do you create a film that can reach millions of people and engage them in the subject? You have to take risks and try something new.

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the destruction of whole societies.

Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.

Even the best documentaries reach tens of thousands in their cinematic window. I believe that by launching online, we could potentially reach millions.

My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the conversation, the politicians will join - that is when we can create real change.

If you have a drug problem, you should be sent to a doctor, not a jail cell.

Whether through TV, film, online, app, or web, we will find ways to tell our stories with authenticity, and engage with our viewers beyond traditional means.

The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart.

I predict an hour when the term Women In Art will be as strange sounding a topic as the title Men In Art would be now.

To lose a sibling is to lose the one different from you. There’s no one now against whom to say: But I am like this. I am this.

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.

I'm probably one of the most co-dependent people around. That's why I made a movie about it, and I live it every day.

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be - its inconceivable.