Words matter. These are the best Josh Fox Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you’re cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.
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.
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.
People treat citizens like they’re some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.
Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.
‘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.
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.
Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry.
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.
I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.
I have to have faith that we’re going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we’re going to do it before it’s too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.
Water is a cure-all. Water is everything. You can’t get better without drinking lots of water, and you can’t drink water unless it’s clean.
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.
Journalism is irrepressible. It can’t be taken away.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think what we all have to do is make this big leap towards renewables. And it has to be a solution where you’re actually building the answer; and it has to be built faster than the natural gas industry can build their answer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you work with people for a long time, you start to sense what they are thinking without having to communicate explicitly.
When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that’s terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.
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 love documentary because it’s alive.
I’m a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.
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.
You know, there’s a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what’s morally right.
The history of fossil-fuel development has always been that certain people are expendable. What’s changed is that new, larger populations are now considered expendable.
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.
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.
Culture is the air we breathe all around us.