I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to tell a story that makes it exciting. Our Untold History was a huge challenge. Snowden was no piece of cake, because writing code and breaking code is some of the most boring stuff you've ever seen.
If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying. . . and they look back at the opportunity that we have here at the close of the twentieth century to move out into space and they see that we didn't do anything with it. . . I don't want history to judge us on having blown this opportunity, and I think history will judge us on this more than on any other issue.