Tourism is a mortal sin.

It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.

We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.

As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.