We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.

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.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

Divine love""Don't Leave me, ONLYTo carry my body on my two feet I need you

Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

Sitting in a hotel room just makes you sit and think about things.

The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.