If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.

I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it; the idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them! The people of the future will say 'meat-eaters' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.