The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.

I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition away from fossil fuels very, very quickly.

The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.

Natural gas is a bridge fuel. But it's not a bridge - it's a gangplank. It's either a bridge in space or a bridge in time. The bridge in time we don't need. We have renewable technology right now.

When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.

We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.

I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.

I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.

We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy.

We should be moving vigorously towards renewable energy. The technology of which is right here right now.

I can't tell you how terribly glad I am that you're going to be all right, " George said, rather thickly. "I...I wouldn't know how to act without a twin.

and if i asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.

I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.