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

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

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.

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.

For ‘King Cole’s American Salvage,’ I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars.

What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.

I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible.

Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth– To them e’en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.