I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.

As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.

The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.

There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.