Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people.

We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.

I've always kind of hated films about climate change.

I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write.

I think people are losing that sense of security pretty fast, frankly.

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't get out of that room.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done.

A fish does not swim it is SWUM. A bird does not FLY it is flown.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.