I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting

I really do believe that in order to overcome our environmental shortcomings, we have to act united as a people, and that means that every individual has to participate and do their part. Certainly, we need government and legislation, but the governments really listen to people, so we all have to bring to the table our own effort or our own passion in whatever way that manifests itself.

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

You can't expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!

I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.

I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.

I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it.