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

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.

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.

God has not given us the spirit of fear. So imagine where your fear coming from. It's from somewhere else!

Peace and satisfaction are the two most expensive things in life. You can never buy them, you can only generate them for yourself, and those around you.

Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

The iPod is a perfect example of Steve's [Jobs] methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.

In times to resist, do not step aside; stay solid like a statue! In times to step aside, do not resist; be flexible like a snake!

My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.

When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.