I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.

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

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

Of course there's a value in a storyboard if you do a big - let's say an action movie and actors have to move and act in front of a green screen because entire backgrounds exploding and cars flying through there have to be created separately, and in this case you better make sure the actors are precisely placed and the background action is moving in a certain moment, for this type of film you would need a storyboard.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.