The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.

The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

I believe in unity, as opposed to division.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.

We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.