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.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

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.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake.

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.