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

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

After "Jack Reacher" the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.

There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave ["La Soufrière"].

Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he wrote a book about it and gave all the details of how he spent the money, even making a 35mm celluloid feature film was possible, at least for Rodriguez.