Josh Fox Quotes

United States, Film Director
July 24, 1972

Josh Fox is an American film director, playwright and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary, Gasland. He is one of the most prominent public opponents of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. He is the founder and artistic director of a film and theater company in New York City, and has contributed as a journalist to Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast and NowThis.

Also known as Playwright, Environmentalist

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.

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When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.

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- Fight
- Move
- Cornered

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.

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- Energy
- Answer
- Late
We should be moving vigorously towards renewable energy. The technology of which is right here right now.

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- Energy
- Moving
- Renewable
When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

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When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.

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- Focus
- Industry
- Gas
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.

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- Values
- Gas
- Pollution
Natural gas is a bridge fuel. But it's not a bridge - it's a gangplank. It's either a bridge in space or a bridge in time. The bridge in time we don't need. We have renewable technology right now.

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- Time
- Need
- Bridge

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.

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- Night
- Ideas
- Owl
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.

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