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To Convince People To Back Your Idea, You've Got To Sell It To Yourself And Know When It's The Moment. Sometimes That Means Waiting. It's Like Surfing. You Don't Create Energy, You Just Harvest Energy Already Out There.

Every Time My Cameras Go Out On A Movie, We Learn Something New And Then We Take What We Learn And We Put It Into The Next Generation Of The Cameras So We're Constantly Improving. It's Kind Of Like Building A Race Car, Racing It, Then Running Back To The Shop And Working On The Engine Some More And Tinkering With It To Improve It.

Any Direct Experience That I Have With Indigenous Peoples And Their Plights May Feed Into The Nature Of The Story I Choose To Tell. In Fact, It Almost Certainly Will.

Everybody Is Always Talking About Droughts And Sea Level Rise, But When Human Civilization, With More Crowding And Greater Resource Depletion, Is Under That Much Stress, It Translates Into Wars And Huge Displaced Populations. The Syrian Refugee Crisis Is Just A First Taste Of What It's Going To Be Like. I Don't Want My Kids Growing Up In That Kind Of World.

So My Message Is In Whichever Realm, Be It Going Into Space Or Going Into The Deep Sea, You Have To Balance The Yin And Yang Of Caution And Boldness, Risk Aversion And Risk Taking, Fear And Fearlessness. No Great Accomplishment Takes Place, Whether It Be A Movie Or A Deep Ocean Expedition, Or A Space Mission, Without A Kind Of Dynamic Equipoise Between The Two. Luck Is Not A Factor. Hope Is Not A Strategy. Fear Is Not An Option.