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

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.

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

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.

It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie.

I’m a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody.

I remember telling my classmates when I was 8-years-old that (being a sportscaster) is what I wanted to do.