There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.

I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years. Disney has updated them, and made them accessible for us.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.

I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television.

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

Uganda can greatly benefit from American evangelicals if they separate the Scott Lively extremists from the Rick Warren-type of moderate evangelicals.

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

Grace is gladness of existence.

If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen Then it were better for the world That the world had never been.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

I've learned that you can't make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they'll panic and give in.

Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.