To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

The trust we build over the years if of tremendous help to me when I start in a new project and need to find associates.

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the "Holy Grail" is economic growth.