Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

When the evidence for and against "democracy being the finest system of government yet invented" is weighed, George W Bush is going to tip the scales very heavily against.

Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.

Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.