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.

When people sit across from people - gay, straight, whatever - and they talk, they find out that people they may have been demonizing for their lifetime aren't the demons we've expected them to be.

The abundance that is offered to us by leaving behind the fossil fuel paradigm is very promising for the world and the people of the world. We will have cleaner air, water, and food; we will have more resources to share with our people. There will be more economic freedom because people will be able to harvest their own energy.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.