Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

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.

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.

Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.

Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.

My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.