If you have a drug problem, you should be sent to a doctor, not a jail cell.

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the destruction of whole societies.

Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.

Even the best documentaries reach tens of thousands in their cinematic window. I believe that by launching online, we could potentially reach millions.

How do you create a film that can reach millions of people and engage them in the subject? You have to take risks and try something new.

My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the conversation, the politicians will join - that is when we can create real change.

Whether through TV, film, online, app, or web, we will find ways to tell our stories with authenticity, and engage with our viewers beyond traditional means.

Gender is like a Rubik’s Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.

Faithful prayer!

Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

Whatever burden it was that she was carrying around, I wanted to carry it for her.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

I always think street but train sport.

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

I see no reason not to write whatever comes to me.