37 Quotes by Eric Goode

I spent countless hours hiking up and down Carriger Creek. That was a time of my life when I really connected with nature as a child, and my mom really promoted that.

I was definitely an 80s fashion victim who drank the Kool-Aid.

There is animal rights and animals rights organizations like PETA, then there's animal welfare, which is very different than animal rights.

Then I began filming a world that I knew quite a bit about. I was peripherally involved in that world much of my life - the exotic reptile world, the collectors, the dealers, the smugglers.

I set out to expose the issue with big cat ownership in America and where that exploitation lies.

When something changes in Episode 7, you have to then begin moving things around, shuffling things backwards. Once you start moving material into it, that can derail your whole arc.

Look, when we were building Area, we were so driven and focused, partly because none of us came from money.

Unlike accredited zoos like the Bronx Zoo, San Diego Zoo, the Los Angeles Zoo, these are private menageries, and these people are frightened and there is an existential fear that they are going to be shut down by the government, by PETA, by HSUS, by animal rights groups. So they, generally, are very guarded.

I spent my summers in Sonoma at my grandfather's ranch, we called it Rancho Rodeo.