To me, you’re either an activist or an inactivist.

A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

The single most impactful thing you can do today is adopt a more plant-based diet.

Change doesn't need to be overwhelming; it is not impossible.

I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.

Yes, we need to change, but simple changes can have profound impacts.

The action we take in the next few years will impact the Earth hundreds of millions of years from now.

Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact.

A cold heart is its own worst punishment.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

Opportunities don't knock at all. They don't have to, they're already all around us. It's up to us to see where they are and take advantage of them.

When I shut off the verbal, I like to escape into the visual.

The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]

I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors.

I'm really just doing whatever comes my way and trying to stay busy and get better at what I'm doing.

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.