I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.
It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.
We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.
If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.
The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined.
The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.
Every morning, when Alaskans wake up, one of the first things they do, is look outside to see if there are any Russians hanging around. And if there are, you gotta go up to them and ask, 'What are you doing here?' and if they can't give you a good reason, it's our responsibility to say, you know, 'Shoo! Get back over there!'
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.