When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it's like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb.

Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it was not an easy time. Those were the days when the oil and gas companies pretty much controlled the show and anybody speaking about solar energy or carbon energy would get smashed down as being a radical or a tree-hugger or what have you. So I was out there feeling very often alone and my kids would get that.