As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.

I have a lot of beautiful friends.

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.