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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.

Even My Wife And Two Of My Children Are In "leaves Of Grass". Because I Love The Source Material So Much, It Was Really Easy To Write And An Utter Delight To Get To Direct Because I Had People Like Edward [norton] Elevating The Material And Surprising Me In Their Interpretations Of All Of This Stuff That's So Close To Me.

People Think Because I Went To Yale That That Implies Privilege, And It Is A Privilege In The Sense That It's An Incredible Opportunity.

I Don't Tend To Say It's Time For One Of This Or That Genre. Things Flow To You In A Strange Way, And Why You Bump Into A Certain Kind Of Thing In One Moment Is...it's Hard To Explain.

The Deeper You Go With The Character, The More You See The Layers Start To Peel Away. It's More Challenging To Me, But It's Also Just Interesting. Those Are The Things I Like To Watch. I Like To Watch The Evolutions Of Something.