Nature is monumentally indifferent.

In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.

Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.