It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people. Jack: I see you. Rose: And? Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

Nature's not our enemy, it's our sustenance; and we need it - and we need nature healthy for us to be healthy and to survive long term

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.