Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.

I come from a traditional theater background.

It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

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.