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Lawrence Bender

I think politics is really important to our lives. At its best and highest form, it can make the biggest difference in the world and at its worst, it is the worst skullduggery on planet Earth.

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Lawrence Bender

It became my first passion, the first thing I really fell in love with. I joined the Ralph Robinson Ballet company, and then went to New York and became a dancer. I thought I’d die before I did anything else.

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Lawrence Bender

After ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot – water, poverty, and so many, many more.

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Lawrence Bender

It’s been ingrained in me, from my parents and others, this idea of making a difference in the world.

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Lawrence Bender

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

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Lawrence Bender

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

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Lawrence Bender

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

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Lawrence Bender

Honestly, when I had the idea to make ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, ‘I want to make a movie about Al Gore’s slide show, will you give me a million dollars?’ People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.

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Lawrence Bender

In 1998, I was screening ‘Good Will Hunting’ at Camp David. And I was saying, ‘Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clinton.’ Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle. It was an extraordinary day.

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Lawrence Bender

Being scared is really a good thing. It’s being scared of being scared that’s bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity – that’s what an artist is, that’s what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.

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Lawrence Bender

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That’s a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

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Lawrence Bender

There are definitely strictly independent movies. ‘Gummo’ is one. Another is one I made, ‘Fresh,’ a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.

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