Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance.

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.