The Films That Influenced Me

Any Direct Experience That I Have With Indigenous Peoples And Their Plights May Feed Into The Nature Of The Story I Choose To Tell. In Fact, It Almost Certainly Will.

I'm King Of The World!!!

Don't Get Seduced By Your Own Stuff. Don't Get High On Your Own Supply. The Hardest Thing As A Filmmaker Is When You're Watching A Film That You've Worked On For Several Years. You Know Every Frame So Intimately That Holding Lots Of The Objectivity Of A New Viewer Who Has Just Seen It For The First Time Is The Hardest Thing. Every Aesthetic Decision You Make - And You Make Thousands Of Them Every Day, Have To - In Theory, Must Be Done From You Being A Blank Slate. You Almost Have To Run A Program, Like A Mind Wipe, Every Time You Watch The Movie.

Your Only Competitors Are Your Past Achievements.

You Can Have A Strong Economy Or You Can Help The Environment, But You Can't Do Both At The Same Time. That's Ridiculous. In Fact, As A Sustainable Vision For A Healthy Economy Has To Involve Changing Our Energy Policy And Changing With Respect To The Natural World. Because We're Hitting Nature's Thresholds, We're Hitting Nature's Limits With Respect To Water And Crop Yields And Energy Use And Fossil Fuels Heating The Atmosphere At The Same Time We're Past Global Peak And Running Out Of That.