Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing people to talk to each other and tell their own stories and organize themselves.

No amount of success - whatever that means, quote-unquote success - no amount of success replaces the reality of being separated from my family for this long.

To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That's what is at stake.

Immigration is by far the most controversial yet least understood issue in America. Frankly, given the way we're talking about immigration, given the emphasis, the overemphasis on border security, I would argue that we're not on the same page when we debate this issue. We're doing far too much debating and not enough conversing.