There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day.

I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go.

One of my beliefs as a filmmaker is that if you can make somebody laugh, you can make them listen. With laughter, you can get somebody's guard down, you can open them up to listening to you. They don't feel like they're being preached to or talked down to. I think it helps, it makes really hard to understand information a little more accessible and palatable. And at the end of the day, it makes a movie a little more fun. It doesn't feel so heavy handed.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

Seventy-five percent of Americans don't even have passports. We don't even think about traveling beyond our borders.

I think people need to see on both sides. Seeing how the people in the Palestinian Territories can't move around - it's a maze now, with the wall, the road blocks and everything else. It takes you hours to get from one person's house to your job or to a friend or even to the hospital if someone's hurt. Then you go into Israel and see in Tel Aviv, where they have 12-18 bomb threats a day, which are real. It completely disrupts their life. Or Sderot where bombs are falling daily from the sky fired by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.