Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

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

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

There is never an excuse not to finish a film.

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.