Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from it. Yes, those living in poverty today will be hit first and the hardest, but we are all going to feel it and see it. We already are.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.