"I think my initial motivations were um that I think if I, when I was in high school if I had that program, my, the decision-making I, well the decision I made about my schooling would have been different and I probably would have had a much better experience with high school because I had a really terrible high school experience."

"I have a beef in the way that youth are represented in media, and also in media literacy. I think in both cases, their agency’s kind of compromised."

"It is important because it gives a medium that is attainable by huge groups of people. So, suddenly, they can make a little film, and it can be on YouTube and all of their friends can see it. They can be sent off to thousands of unknown viewers, or it can be showed in their school, or it can be shown in various different capacities."

"It was just one more exposure for me to know how much work goes into manipulating images, and making sure kids watch the stuff and then stay tuned for the commercials and buying Oreos, and whatever else."