I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.

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

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.