- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a theater guy and a filmmaker. So when my community was thrown up in the air by the gas industry, the way I could contribute was to do something in the film world. I never thought it would be a big deal at all.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.
- Breathe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture is the air we breathe all around us.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Frenzy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you can light your water on fire due to methane contamination in your ground water, what else can you do but laugh?
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.
- Environmentalists
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love documentary because it's alive.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know that we have to get off of fossil fuels. And we know that the world is going in that direction. And we have to do it fast.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020