What Matters Is Who We Are, Not

We're A Young Species; We're Only 175,000 Years Old. On The Evolutionary Scale, Life On This Planet Is 4 Billion Years Old. We're 175,000 Years Old. So We're Trying Something Out. Who Wouldn't Think It Would Be Better To Have The Most Stuff To Take As Much As You Could? As We Do That, We See Why The Moral Prophets Come Along And Say, Don't Even Store Into Barns, Right? It's Easier For A Camel To Pass Through The Eye Of The Needle Than A Rich Man To Enter The Kingdom Of Heaven. We've Seen We Plunder Nature. We Plunder Our Neighbor. We Create Enemies Because We're Against Each Other.

I Was Raised Catholic And Didn't Like The Dogma And Exclusivity Of That Teaching But I Was Moved By The Moral Teachings And By The Power Of The Jesus Fellow.

I Love Frank Capra. He Believed In The Goodness Of People And One Man's Ability To Fight And Often Triumph.

Our Own Economy Tells Us To Take As Much As We Can Get, Right? Our Own Economy Says, You're Going To Be The Most Successful Graduate If You Go Into The Business World And Take As Much You Can Get. That's Not How Nature Works. Nature Has A Much Simpler Economy. Everything In Nature Takes What It Needs. That's It. You Don't See An Oak Tree Gathering Up All The Resources. An Oak Tree Takes What It Needs To Be The Authentic Oak Tree It Is.

The Bike Accident Caused Me To Start Talking About Spiritual Truths. This Accident - Where I Faced My Own Death - Compelled Me To Talk About These Truths And Try To Make A Movie About Them.