There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

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.

People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.