I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.

I prefer the material woman.

I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to be all the time stoned and on weed. It didn't look right and it doesn't look right today either and the damage drugs have done to civilizations are too enormous. And besides, I don't need any drug to step out of myself. I don't want them and I do not need them.

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

It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes. I can edit almost as fast as I'm thinking, editing with celluloid means always searching for this little reel of film, and number it, and scribble on it with some sort of pens, and gluing it together, and working on a flatbed. It's much, much slower.

The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.