I don't want to travel.

When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.

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

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.

Tourism is a mortal sin.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.