If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.