It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.

Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.

We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.

Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.

Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.

In the communist revolution in North Korea, when they threw out the Japanese occupiers, they claimed the power in the dynamic of this volcano for their revolution, saying that this is at the center of the dynamics of our revolution. Everything that you encounter - you don't have, for example, any advertisements, you don't have anything like that anywhere in the country - if you see anything it would be propaganda, and propaganda always inevitably comes back to the volcano. It's always including the volcano. You see the new leader and standing behind him you see the volcano.

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