We haven't seen a real volcanic event at least in 74,000 years - [Mount Toba] in Indonesia, in Sumatra, where the crater itself is 100 kilometers across. It was so monumental, what happened, that for a very long time the entire atmosphere of our planet was darkened. It's not the lava and the heat per se; it's the obscuring of the entire atmosphere, and it made it very difficult for the human race to survive.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.

I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.

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?

THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.

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