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 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."

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

Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds!

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

I hate to lose. And when I do lose, I don't lose the lesson, I don't miss the message.

Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.

There's too many people in the world.