Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.

Each role, I feel like takes you on a different journey based on who that character is.

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody.

Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.

I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.

Activists must be admired for the sacrifices they are willing to make for those things they hold dear. I would say those kinds of ways of looking at life enrich the value of life, and that is a good thing.

Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

Electrify your life! With heating and cooling, cooking and travel, and you will be doing a lot to help the future of this planet. There is no need to burn anything anymore.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can't move to renewable energy now. It's a lie.

That's my secret Cap: I'm always angry.

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.

I know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.

My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

Folks should be able to harvest, store, use, or sell their own energy as they see fit. This is not a Democratic nor Republican issue, and if anyone tries to convince you it is, they are being purposely misleading.

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

People are like, 'How does Julianne Moore look naked?' I don't know. She was pressed up against me the whole time. I couldn't look at her.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

When people sit across from people - gay, straight, whatever - and they talk, they find out that people they may have been demonizing for their lifetime aren't the demons we've expected them to be.

Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

No great undertaking ever looks like it's winnable. That only comes later and only if you are lucky and are willing to fight and have a group of folks around you that are willing to do the same thing, too.

Every piece of geopolitical strife that's happening in the world today is revolved around energy, either trying to grab resources or people using resources to fund radical groups.