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 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.

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.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it’s story.

Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies.

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

They just love to complain about me because I'm an American who gets more press than their Canadian players.

For Chelsea, I would turn down every job in the world.

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

However, he also trusted me to make my own decisions. Contradicting me or telling me what to do wasn't in his nature - even though he secretly may have wanted to.

Beware of bad Catholics.

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.