Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.

Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.

Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

Though Love be deeper Friendship is more wide.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's what you can give.

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter

And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.

Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.