When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.

When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It's hard to stand next to someone who views your skin color and hair as a costume. As a filmmaker, whenever I get that feeling, I want to explore what motivates people to engage in such offensive behavior and enlighten folks about its origins.

When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.

[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.