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I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

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Own, Crisis, Motivated, Generosity

Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them.

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Rest, Dirty, Natural, Fossil Fuel

We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands.

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Bad, Fuel, Important Thing, Fossil Fuel

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.

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Night, Owl, Profession, Luckily

The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.

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Love, Deal, Line, Succumb

Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach.

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Media, Independent, Some, Beholden

As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.

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Voice, Through, Sources, Verifiable

The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.

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Values, Goes, Follows, Civic

What we've got is the wholesale embrace of fracking domestically, internationally and for export. And this couldn't be further from what we really need to do to address climate change.

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Embrace, Need, Address, Internationally

I've been arrested three times. I don't like getting arrested, but it's not so bad when it's an organized form of nonviolent disobedience. It's something appealing to a higher law.

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Law, Been, Arrested, Disobedience

'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It's also about how we forcefully exported that culture and then pretended to not know what we were doing.

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American, Doing, About, Memorial

We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy. And when your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

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Living, Some, Allowed, Runs

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

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Away, Taken, Journalism

The Safe Drinking Water Act, the safety provisions of the Clean Water Acts, the Clean Air Act, the Superfund Law - the gas industry is exempt from all these basic environmental and worker protections. They don't have to disclose the chemicals they use. They don't have to play by the same rules as anybody else.

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Play, Anybody, Use, Provisions

In the U.S. you have a system of lobbying and influence on our policy and law makers which is incredibly pronounced. The gas industry spent $250 million getting an exemption from our Safe Water Act. Every one of those dollars is toxic; a contaminant in our political system. It disrupts the normal flow of justice, science, fact and reporting.

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Political, Fact, Industry, Reporting

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

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Environmental, Like, Spill, Reporting

A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.

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Wealthy, Diminishing, Our, Dissatisfied

I love driving. I still drive a 1993 Toyota Camry. I do want to get an electric car, but it's less of a carbon footprint if you keep your old, fuel-efficient car on the road than if you say 'build me a whole new car.'

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Love, Your, Whole, Footprint

According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist.

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Communist, Anti-American, Extremist

I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.

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Think, I Think, Questioned, Unprecedented

I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius cook, and I picked that up from her. I make my own sauce, which takes four hours, from a recipe that's been refined over many years. I won't tell anybody what it is.

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Love, Been, Anybody, Refined

I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.

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Think, I Think, Implications, Backyard

I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition away from fossil fuels very, very quickly.

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Think, I Think, Very, Transition

History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.

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Through, Some, Framing, Device

When you can light your water on fire due to methane contamination in your ground water, what else can you do but laugh?

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Light, Due, Else, Laugh

First of all, the idea that natural gas is better than coal is a lie, especially when it comes to fracking for natural gas. It is a lie that was bought into by a lot of Democrats and a lot of environmentalists because I think they wanted to have a win against something; against coal.

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Against, Idea, I Think, First Of All

We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are not dead. When we're backed up against the wall against the largest corporations in the history of corporations, it's there.

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Made, Largest, Backed, Corporations

With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have the wrong piece of music over a scene, people aren't going to get the scene. If you have the wrong camera angle, people aren't going to pay attention. That's as much a part of the process as getting people to talk to you.

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Asking, Next, Part, Camera

Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.

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Toxic, Public Health, Laws, Legislator

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

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Treat, Some, Set, Unreliable

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