The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.

You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.

The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.

I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.