"A lot of times the best trailers are for complete dogshit movies. It's a shame that people are beyond quick to judge things these days. Lots of great stuff gets lost that way."

“We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.”

“When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.”

Source : "15 Questions with Jehane Noujaim". Interview with Synne D. Chapman, www.thecrimson.com. May 14, 2008.

“The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.”

“Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.”

“Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.”

Source : "The Farming of Bones". Book by Edwidge Danticat, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1998.

“I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.”

“Know your audience. If I don't share in a way that will be understood, I lose my ability to connect.”

Source : "Jennifer Widerstrom: Fears, Philanthropy, and Fitness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.