Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.

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.

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.

Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal

I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it is.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

I feel alive when I feel ease of heart.

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.

Don't GIVE UP. And know that there is always someone out there who believes in you and who loves you JUST THE WAY THAT YOU ARE.

Anything that has the Disney name to it is something we feel responsible for.

I don't think you should talk while the movie was going on and say, 'Oh, look at that - look how smart I was' or 'What a brilliant shot that is!' I don't believe in that.