Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it.

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.

To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.

Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

One of the hardest things for me as an exec was always, particularly as you progress further in the system, is that you're pushed further away from the day to day, the mechanics of making a movie.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest

It often comes down to the people that you get to work with, and to match or enhance their creation. I tend to fall in love with whatever project we are involved in at the moment.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.