In criticizing an IDEOLOGY, one cannot be racist, HATEFUL, or bigoted. These descriptors apply to POSITIONS held against PEOPLE and not IDEOLOGIES.

I've ALWAYS been INTERESTED in the MANUFACTURING of narratives, IDENTITIES, and IDEOLOGIES, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers.

I will NEVER CHANGE my IDEOLOGIES for ANYONE.

The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the WORLD and of their own RELIGION - will inoculate young PEOPLE against extremist IDEOLOGIES.

'Free State of Jones' went BEYOND that. It GOT into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we THOUGHT it was - or even the NORTH for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.

I'm interested in the balance between big currents in history - the economies, the ideologies, SOCIAL structures, and so on - and the decisions that people have to make. At the heart of all these great decisions to GO to war, there are human beings who have to SAY, 'Yes, let's do it,' or 'No, we won't do it.'

Ideologies are WAYS of organizing large swaths of LIFE and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly HARD to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a LITTLE LIKE the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.

It is in COLLEGE that one gathers CONFIDENCE as the MIND is OPEN to IDEOLOGIES.

The THREAT from TERRORISTS - from extreme IDEOLOGIES - needs to be challenged head-on.