Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of "progress." I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.

Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.