We hope that the federal government is able to respond quickly and effectively. It is becoming quite evident that the broad nature of this outbreak is going to quickly deplete both state and local funds dedicated to the epidemiological efforts, laboratory testing, surveillance and mosquito-control efforts.

We're happy to have the missing piece back and hope it can be fixed.

When you make a little film without stars and not in English, you [just] hope you get into international festivals, so we didn't know if we'd get accepted in competition in Edinburgh or Toronto. Each [one seemed to bring] attention to the film to audiences around the world. We [originally] just wanted it to play in London, New York and Los Angeles like most small films do.

To be honest, I hope we have similar results [as last weekend]. It's going to be another top-level competition. There's going to be some elite schools there. Arkansas is going to be there; It really doesn't get any better than that.

We hope that large government institutions will come to our aid during times of need. The truth is ... it is individuals helping on a local level who make a real difference in people's lives.

Trust to some was placing all your insecurities and beliefs in one single person, and hoping he or she wouldn’t squash them.