I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

The meter is ticking [particularly in the face of climate change], so you've got to get to as much as you can as fast as you can. I grew up with 'This Land Is Our Land,' and public land doesn't belong to that administration or this one. We want our kids to grow up with real natural places, not just photos of them.

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?