
I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country.

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.

When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.

When things become insurmountable, some people quit, some keep going
for no other reason than to continue. Because that's all there is to do.

There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?

I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

If you stay in Beverly Hills too long, you become a Mercedes.

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It's just a step on the road, it's not the end of something.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

I think a lot of people thought my career started with Butch Cassidy.

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

I didn't want the attacks to affect me. I don't believe you should be led by fear.

I believe the American people care a lot about the environment.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.