There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or something like Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the power of the music of the civil rights movement [which he executive produced in 2009]. Or Bamako, about the African debt crisis, a platform to discuss the experience of people who actually live it. All of these are important ways we can use film as a forum inviting people into a dialogue.

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.

Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.