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

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.

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

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.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

Comfortable in my own skin, I'm madly in love with myself.

When angry, count to Zen.

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

World only has two things: Things you can eat and things you can no eat.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut.

I don't think about success to be famous, because I've done that at the highest level, but it's all about my children.