Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

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.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

All battles should be based on principles. And in a battle of principles, it is not the size of the adversary that matters. It is the size of the principle.

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

People are supposed to be loyal to the country above [Donald's Trump] family.