I am a product of my failures.

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.

I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.