When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It's hard to stand next to someone who views your sk….

After I read about Uganda's now famous "kill the gays" bill, I wanted to explore the religious forces behind it. As a gay man, I wanted to understand….

I wasn't that much of a Disney buff growing up, but I love the mystical and magical nature of Peter Pan, and I have connected with that character thr….

When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter..

I've known Owen's father Ron [Suskind] for years, and this was based on his best-selling book ["Life, Animated"]. We worked together as journalists a….

Someone sent an email to Reverend Joanna Watson [an American missionary] saying that I'm gay, and she sent it to all the anti-gay pastors in Uganda. ….

Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award..

That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality..

Why so much interest in Uganda? Why are American conservatives lobbing for hate? The answer is that they feel they have lost the culture war here at ….

Uganda can greatly benefit from American evangelicals if they separate the Scott Lively extremists from the Rick Warren-type of moderate evangelicals..

I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that chronicl….

Imagine that you're a gay man and you're spending all your time with people who believe you are possessed by the devil..

I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television..

It's a horrible feeling to be mocked and ridiculed because of your race..

The challenge and the goal was to get inside Owen's [Suskind] world, because I really wanted to see it through his point of view. To achieve that nat….

I think many Dutch just don't know the history of Black Pete, that he is rooted in slavery, and how he was used to dehumanize a race of people. Once ….

[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown agai….

They embrace them because they represent everything that America represents: money, power, and freedom. Why else would you see an old Ugandan woman r….

I had full access to the material, and had a great relationship with Sean Bailey, the president of Disney productions. He really guided me through th….

As Mike Bickle said to me, there is a spiritual battle going on in the world, and he believes that in America marriage between a man and a woman will….

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed.".