It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

Action is a way of externalizing an emotional state. You might not be running, leaping, climbing and doing all that. But, the way you create that emotional state in a movie is by having the characters have physical jeopardy that they have to work against.

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax.

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.

You're so stupid, Rose!