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

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.

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.

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

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.

Your thoughts create your reality and you can chose the quality and the type of reality you experience every day by guarding your mind and only allowing the right input.

In the journey to success, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.

Float with me in the world of ether.

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

What wine goes with Captain Crunch?

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.