I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We go to cities.
You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.
The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.
We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.
Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.
Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.
The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.
I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.
What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.
If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.