I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.

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.