I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people to change their perspective. I enjoy pushing myself into learning and understanding things from a very different point of view. It's scary to do that. It's scary to kind of put yourself in somebody else's position.

My mom always used to say, "You'll be a better kid if you just listen."

The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

Seventy-five percent of Americans don't even have passports. We don't even think about traveling beyond our borders.

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

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.