Get used to the bear behind you.

Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.

At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.

I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.

You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams.

Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.