I must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain things and also give me some guidance, "isn't there something missing, shouldn't we address this or that?" so it's not completely alone out of the blue. It's very well thought through.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.

I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.

There is never an excuse not to finish a film.

The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.