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Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.
I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.
Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it.
Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.
I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country.
I'm an impatient person, so it's hard for me to sit around and do take after take after take.
I've always wanted to try new things because it's exciting and it keeps you active and alive.
As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.
I've been very fortunate in that I've had wonderful relationships with people I've worked with.
I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.
Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.
The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.
I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.
When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.
I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.
If you could ever do a project that really has magic in it, and justifiable magic, you should do it.
The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.
I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'
It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.
What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.
Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It's just a step on the road, it's not the end of something.
As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.
What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.
The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.
It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.
The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.
I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.
People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.
I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.
...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.
I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.
The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead 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.
Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.
All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.
I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.
Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.
When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.
I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.
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'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.
Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?