Get used to the bear behind you.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

Here, all of a sudden, we have a revolution in - in communication, and it is - it is really, truly big. Internet is as big as the introduction of fire to the human race, or the introduction of electricity into our lives.

[ 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.

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.

Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.