The word 'resilience,' in our American culture is closely aligned with 'grit,' and that word implies a certain moral fiber that says you can survive and thrive in any adversity, because you are strong - but that message of strength is both disqualifying and problematic.

When 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?

In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.

When you have really solid biology and medical science at the core of an issue, it makes it much easier to identify what potential solutions may be.

I'm in full support of that technique [meditation] , and what David Lynch is doing. It's very important.

What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change.

Dyslexia is a neurological issue, not a character flaw.