I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.

I love 'Jungle Book' and all the classics growing up, but what I learned about this is that these Disney films are basically classic fables that have been told for thousands of years.

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. But while growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world.

God Loves Uganda' is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting 'sexual immorality' and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow Biblical law.

They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.