"I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family."

"If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica."

"Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry."

"I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men."

"I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials."

"A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad."

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

"There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!"