The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the films.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.

The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

One of my beliefs as a filmmaker is that if you can make somebody laugh, you can make them listen. With laughter, you can get somebody's guard down, you can open them up to listening to you. They don't feel like they're being preached to or talked down to. I think it helps, it makes really hard to understand information a little more accessible and palatable. And at the end of the day, it makes a movie a little more fun. It doesn't feel so heavy handed.

You come downstairs, turn off the TV, and then and your son says, 'Daddy, I want to get that wrestling set, and all the pieces are sold separately.' The minute he quotes a commercial verbatim, that's when he's had enough TV.

I think we've unplugged and become very apathetic to a lot of things that are happening. There's so much going on and we're sort of disconnected.