All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in a language of their age group which I have to learn first.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.

The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

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

When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.