We need to confront honestly the issue of scale. Bigness has a charm and a drama that are seductive, especially to politicians and financiers; but bigness promotes greed, indifference, and damage, and often bigness is not necessary. You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.

We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be…

In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.

It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong. The only sufficient answer is to give up the an…

Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.

It's already getting more and more difficult to make an ambitious and original film. There are less and less independent producers or independent companies and…

'Whatever you need sold I'll sell it. Bring in a tank and I'll sell the fuckin thing.' (from 'Car Salesman')