It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.
In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.
It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys.
We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to survive - as opposed to domesticated animals that we depend on. Would it radically change things if we had more rhinos in our midst? I kind of suspect it would.
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.
Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book
I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.
God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!