American - Director | 1972 -
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.
Josh Fox
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When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.
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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.
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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.
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According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist.
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Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry.
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I love documentary because it's alive.
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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.
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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.
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Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them.
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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.
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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.
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