At This Point In My Life I'm

You're Always Choosing The Start Point And The End Point. And Almost By Definition, The Most Interesting Period Is Where Something Happens, As A Result Of Which Something Is Different At The End. And So To Me, The Idea That You Know Everything About A Character At The Beginning Is Sort Of Ridiculous. Something Has To Be Revealed. I Like It When 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.

I Think There Is A Serious Corruption In The Idea Sold Through Advertising That You Can Attain Spiritual Peace Through Lifestyle And The Notion Of Building Your Happiness From The Outside-in By Acquiring Things . . . Which If You Think About It, Is The Essence Of Advertising

There Is A Lot Of Interesting Product Coming To Market Already. Bags And Bottles And Cups And Such Made Of Potato Starch And Other Fully Biodegradable Materials. In Some Sense, Plastic Is More Chemically Complex. We Ought To Be Able To Simplify.

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.

Well, I Don't Feel That I've Played So Many Bad Guys, And I'm Rot Really Drawn To Villains Per Se. I Think A Lot Of People Relate To Some Of My Characters' Inner Struggles.