My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film done.

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.

I dreamt of you last night - as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me.

I don't like the word "experiment" in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

When you walk with Jesus, defeat turns into victory.

I'm an eight hours kind of sleeper, so I definitely try to schedule that in.

I'm a cat person. I have two giant cats [Harry and Arturo] that I call the small panthers. They're like 17 pounds each-they're big boys! Every photo on my phone is of them doing something funny.

Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?