Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed.

We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.

It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.