There's a certain attitude that you'll experience in San Francisco. You could call it hubris.
Government has to produce affordable housing. Government has to produce answers.
Towns have to evolve. Towns have to grow up. But not at the expense of the real people.
MSNBC is barred from my household. CNN is barred from my household.
I was indoctrinated into a Democratic Party cult from a very early age. But I know that's not the only America and we need to understand the other side.
I just don't know that we're as filled with hate as cable news leads us to believe. It's hard to hate up close.
I get that Republicans have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn my last name into a curse word.
No one ever won betting against Nancy Pelosi. You've got to give her credit, no matter what you think of her.
Cable news wants you to believe that America is red versus blue. I would argue America is way more purple than it looks.
If you live in Port Arthur, Texas, and you don't have any food to feed your family for dinner tonight, global warming is not the most important issue; getting a job and feeding your family is.
I believe that if everybody spent their next vacation in a community in America with people they didn't agree with, they'd probably leave feeling a little more comfortable about the country they live in.
If you spend time with people, you understand where they're coming from and you respect them more than if you're judging from a distance.
San Francisco is the microcosm for what's happening all over the world.
Cities need to reinvent themselves in order to stay alive.
There are old people in San Francisco because my parents still live there. The young tech bros don't see old people or children. The Mission district, where they live and work, they don't see children or old people. That statement revealed, to me, the blinders that the techies are wearing.
There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left!
I've always felt that everything I've done has been a conversation, a continuation of the last conversation that I had with the people who've watched my films... and that each thing led to the next.
I come from a deeply Catholic family. My husband and I were married in a Catholic church; we decided to put our kids into Catholic school.
I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.
I may live in liberal America, but I know that this is not the only America.
