By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.

Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.