“I'm interested in a realization that's hiding beneath the surface, and...” — Davis Guggenheim Quote

“I'm interested in a realization that's hiding beneath the surface, and maybe that's what documentaries can do best, is to try to unpack that and make you think about it.”

“The Muslim world is portrayed as a monolith that is consistently scary and negative, and as much as you can be an open-minded person, if the only diet of information you get is scary images of men in beards, that starts to play on you. But you come to find out that the Muslim world is not a monolith.”

“I'm not one of these guys who thinks testing is the only thing. But testing is a piece but there has to be more human ways to evaluate what job teachers are doing and we have to do a better job of that.”

“The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.”

“I became a bomb technician because I wanted to save lives. I nearly gave my own life for that - I lost both my legs and a finger when a roadside bomb detonated beneath me - and have known more heroes than I can count who died defending others.”

“In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.”