I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.

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

Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.