I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television.

I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years. Disney has updated them, and made them accessible for us.

There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

Uganda can greatly benefit from American evangelicals if they separate the Scott Lively extremists from the Rick Warren-type of moderate evangelicals.

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

There are raw materials undeveloped burning inside you but need a platform to materialize and manifest.

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

Our contradictions are never so to ourselves.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.

There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with.

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

I love nature, so I'd love to go out and just look at things and not care what I look like.