It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.

What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.

Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.

It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.

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

There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire