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" I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. "

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" Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that. "

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

" Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart. "

" I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations. "

" You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. "

" The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. "

" I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties. "

" The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man. "

" Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge. "

" I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. "

" I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. "

" There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. "

" The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside. "

" I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment. "

" I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity. "

" Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. "

" Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. "

" I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them. "

" Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision. "

" If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him. "

" I'm the last one who would do self-analysis. "

" I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them. "

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" Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. "

" I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. "

" You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. "