We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another 100,000 years?" In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.

I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.

I must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain things and also give me some guidance, "isn't there something missing, shouldn't we address this or that?" so it's not completely alone out of the blue. It's very well thought through.

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.