As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not relying on your creative instincts and you're not relying on something which brings life into movies and excitement into it.

at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again

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