There's so much one person can do, and so many ways they can help make a difference. It just takes one person to help someone to a better life.

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

I believe 100% when your heart & mind are in the right place and there is no pretense, great things will come. It's that simple!

IF ANYONE DESERVES TO CARRY A GRUDGE, IT’S CHRIST. BUT INSTEAD, HE CARRIED A CROSS.

My responsibility in the past, when I was sleeping outside every night, was just to survive. My responsibility now is to stay real, stay grounded, and just tell the truth.

all appears to change when we change

the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

I get a lot of people who will either write to me or come up in public and say, "My daughter, son, family, or I, etc. look up to you."

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.