The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.