I don’t flatter myself – I’m not a scientist, I’m not a conservation expert.
Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
Everyone keeps saying the western’s dead, but it’s not.
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It’s fun, and it’s fun because it’s hard.
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
As we say in the sewer, if you’re not prepared to go all the way, don’t put your boots on in the first place.
It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.
On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we’re still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.
Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.
I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we’re living now, what we’re all going through.
It’s dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.
If I’m trying to put size on for a role, then I don’t do much running.
As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.
Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.
There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I flip through it, I’m just blown away by people.
I grew up on the golden age of children’s TV.
I’ve observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they’ve done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.
Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it’s guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.