Clearly I Am A Person Who Suffers

I'm Not A Proselytizer. I Was Raised Catholic. I Am A Catholic.

How Do You Deliver Democracy To A Country? You Don't Do It Down The Barrel Of A Gun. That's Not How You Deliver It.

The Media Love To Cover Black People On The Front Page. After All, When You Live In A Society That Will Lock Up About 30 Percent Of All Black Men At Some Time In Their Lives And Send More Of Them To Prison Than To College, Chances Are A Fair Number Of Those Black Faces Will End Up In The Newspaper.

Back In The Late '90s, I Put Together A Humorous Newsmagazine Program Called 'the Awful Truth' For Bravo. We Helped One Guy Get An Organ Transplant Whose Insurance Company Had Refused To Pay. I Thought, If We Could Save A Guy's Life In A 10-minute Segment On Cable, What Could We Do If We Devoted A Whole Movie To A Whole Bunch Of People?

Democracy Is Not A Spectator Sport, It's A Participatory Event. If We Don't Participate In It, It Ceases To Be A Democracy.