Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect.

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.

It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch a film, let's say The Terminator or whatever.

For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was high probability some digital effects were needed, somebody made storyboards and I quickly ignored them, after half an hour I ignored them and I never used any digital effect.