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

Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

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.

Utah is changing. There are good people in Utah. More people want to change the discriminatory laws than want to keep them. People should be able to marry whomever they love.

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?

I can't watch completed films - my wife makes fun of me.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.