We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.

Documentaries make a difference.

Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

Ships are expendable; the whales are not.

I'm not pessimistic about anything.

No species is more important than others.

I'm not really a fugitive.

The sealing industry is dying.