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

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

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

Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.

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

There is never an excuse not to finish a film.

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it