When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.

People are finally able to look around and say, 'I can see the drought, I can see the rising sea levels, I can see the crops dying. Okay, now I get it.' It is finally beginning to sink in that there has been a lot of damage.

The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.

I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.

All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.