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

Nature is monumentally indifferent.

I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.

I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.

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.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.