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

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.

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.

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.

Take time to understand uncanny and bitter situations or else, you shall only end up creating yet another similar situation, situation after situation, time and again!

I know who I want to be and I want you by my side as I become that person.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.

If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible their reactions to it are very normal.

I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt.

I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a part of the country that I love. There's no place like home!

Music is like my security blanket.