I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

What are the lessons learned? Well, I think number one is curiosity. It's the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. And the respect of your team is more important than all the laurels in the world.