I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

We only get one planet.

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

When I was eighteen, River Phoenix was far and away my hero. Think of all those early great performances - My Own Private Idaho. Stand by Me. I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Halloween party, and he passed me. He was beyond pale - he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died. That's a lesson.