I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.