What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change.
James RedfordResilience is not just a complimentary individual quality, but something that is built. And you build it through a number of things in your life, part of it being social fabric.
James RedfordI'm in full support of that technique [meditation] , and what David Lynch is doing. It's very important.
James RedfordThe interesting thing about the ACE study, as it began in the 1990s, is that it was based on a very strict set of ten questions. But what is evolving from that is a better understanding what kind of experiences are beyond the ten questions, and what kind of stressors it generates, there are so many ways that children can be exposed to ongoing stress.
James RedfordWhen you introduce these tools into the community, they can be adopted and implemented at the local level - and the results have been powerful. We have to ask the questions, how do people survive in poverty and other challenges of traumatic childhoods? And, until we fix this underlying problems, how do we help people in the meantime?
James Redford