The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?

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

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.