Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.

There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.

Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in.

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana.

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

I'd like to be a giant enabler.

I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out.

I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.