You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

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.

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

Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

Some of the most amazing stories are happening on the global scene. My extraordinary producing partner, Joslyn Barnes, she's just virtually changed my life with the way she constructed this company and how we go about telling the stories we want to tell.

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row