The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

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.

God is my hope and my joy.

Life will never be the same again. Life will be better.

Real winners do not compete.

I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones.

There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.

The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.

But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.

I was "Never Trump." But it turned out never republican was really the theme of this election.