At This Point In My Life I'm

Duality Is Not A Story. Duality Is Just A Complexity.

I'd Say That, In Addition To Actually Taking My Brother And Sister And I Camping And Hiking And River Rafting All Our Lives And Introducing Us To The Power Of Natural Landscapes, His [my Father's] Biggest Impact On My Thinking Has Been To Always Argue That The "spiritual Case For Nature" Was Not Going To Outweigh The Needs Of 7 Billion People And To Insist That Law, Science And Economics Were The Critical Frameworks Through Which We Had To Defend The Value Of Nature.

I Start To Get Fixated On A Story And A Character And An Idea, And At A Certain Point, I Really Want To Do It. It's A Compulsion To Explore A Specific Thing, As Opposed To A Compulsion To Direct, Generally Speaking.

I Don't Flatter Myself - I'm Not A Scientist, I'm Not A Conservation Expert.

I'm An Actor, And, Beyond That, The Thing I Do Most Compulsively Is Writing. So I Come At It Very Much From This Sense Of Character. I Get Interested In People. And I Feel Confident In My Capacity To Absorb And Manifest The Characteristics Of People. I Have A Real Auditory Hang-up For Dialogue; Re-creating The Way People Talk Really Is An Addiction In My Brain.