Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

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.

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.

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.

if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect

... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Television wasn't prestigious.

If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.