I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.

For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was high probability some digital effects were needed, somebody made storyboards and I quickly ignored them, after half an hour I ignored them and I never used any digital effect.

You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.

Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.

At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.