When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I prefer working behind the camera.

Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.