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.

I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.

If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.

Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.

The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.