Louie Psihoyos Quotes & Sayings

I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future. — Louie Psihoyos

Change doesn't need to be overwhelming; it is not impossible. — Louie Psihoyos

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction. — Louie Psihoyos

To me, you're either an activist or an inactivist. — Louie Psihoyos

Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only generation in history that can turn this around - we're one step away from greatness or the biggest disaster since the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs. — Louie Psihoyos

I lived through the Cold War as a child, and we always thought a nuclear bomb could end life everywhere at any time. On one hand, it created an atmosphere where you lived for the moment - because it could end at any second - but on the other, it warped a generation into thinking t there was no reasonable expectation of building a future that could be vaporized at any moment by a few morons. — Louie Psihoyos

Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet. — Louie Psihoyos

Yes, we need to change, but simple changes can have profound impacts. — Louie Psihoyos

At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be a footnote compared to us presiding over the largest loss of biodiversity since a meteor hit the planet sixty-five million years ago. — Louie Psihoyos

The action we take in the next few years will impact the Earth hundreds of millions of years from now. — Louie Psihoyos

If you can reach just 10 percent of the population, you can begin to reach a tipping point; that's where true social movements take place - it's a numbers game. And when you reach that number, the truth becomes obvious and empires of injustice crumble and fall. — Louie Psihoyos