Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.

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.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.

Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.