But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central emotional event of the whole movie was a tree being cut down. And the entire movie, essentially, is saying, "If we let the military industrial complex trash the place that we're living in, we will have committed an epic crime."

With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.

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

I think it's a total fallacy for people to say, "You couldn't make those old movies today." I think there's more ways to get a movie made today than ever in the history of the entertainment industry. It's a very exciting time to work in movies, if you're a creative person looking to make a very personal, weird vision.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

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

There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.