The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

Broken Horse is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water.

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.

If you want to move through a virtual reality it’s called a video game, it’s been around forever.

When you have the feeling that anything’s possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

Your imagination can create a reality