I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best thing I could do was live by my beliefs. That's probably the most profound thing that anybody can do.
I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else
I'd like to be a giant enabler.
It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.
I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs
Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.
And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation.
I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil.
I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.
No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.
People have to know that there are options available to us today. There is another way, and it is practical and applicable now.
That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible
So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics.
Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.
They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.
