Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.

I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.

Nature is monumentally indifferent.

My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.

You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.