Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.

I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.

I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.