“Make films whenever and however you can – don’t take no for an answer.”

The irony is palpable – technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding.

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.

Why can’t reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there’s so little fish to catch?

Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.

I don’t have all the answers. I need your help, your guidance, and your leadership to tackle the challenges before us.

Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions…that get us to the right answer.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.

Don’t saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.