Of course, you do not do any research: you have to go there and do your film. It's not that I would travel there before without a camera and spend half a year on one of those volcanoes and then come back with a camera. You have to have some sort of a clear mindset.

It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not relying on your creative instincts and you're not relying on something which brings life into movies and excitement into it.

If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.

North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.