I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

Everything becomes yours when you touch it with your love. You are connected to everything with your feelings.

Because all the words in the world won't do much good if they're just rattling around in your head.

Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air.

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.

I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.