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.

I don't want to travel.

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.

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.

I love nature but against my better judgment.

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.