If I'm Trying To Put Size On

People Say You Can't Make Movies About Your Politics Or The Environment. And, Generally Speaking, I Completely Divide Those Sides Of My Brain.

But Look At Avatar (2009), One Of The Most Globally Viewed Pieces Of Entertainment To Have Ever Been Made - The Central Emotional Event Of The Whole Movie Was A Tree Being Cut Down. And The Entire Movie, Essentially, Is Saying, "if We Let The Military Industrial Complex Trash The Place That We're Living In, We Will Have Committed An Epic Crime."

I Started, With Three Friends, This Website Called Crowdrise That's Sort Of The Facebook For Personal Philanthropy, A Place Where Anybody Can Have A Permanent Microsite Of Their Own To Stage Creative Fundraising Projects For The Charities And Causes That They Care About. And We Did It With Serious Intent But Without Any Ambition.

Most Of The Movies That I've Made That I Really Felt Good About And Cared About Made Very Little Money Anyway, So I'm Not Particularly Worried About People Downloading And Sharing Them.

A Lot Of People Ask, "what Do You Pull On In Your Own Life From Your Character?" In All Honesty, It's Not Something That Really Works That Way For Me. I Tend To Look At These Things As An Imaginative Process And A Challenge Of Imagination And Empathy, To Some Degree. I Get Much More Out Of Meeting People Who Have Lived These Lives Than I Do Digging Around In My Own Limited Experiences.