I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

We only gain collectively by acting now. We gain by one day not having to pay a thing for fuel. We gain by having cleaner air, water, and food so that we are healthier and our health care costs come down. We gain by deflating the global fossil fuel markets that drive much of the conflict around the world.

Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.