Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.

If you want the extra-ordinary, you've got to be willing to forsake the ordinary' - Annie Grimes in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

Images exist; things themselves are images... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.