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" 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. "

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" Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. "

" I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks. "

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

" I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. "

" I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent. "

" Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that! "

" I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. "

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

" I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. "

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

" Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. "

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

" I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. "

" 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. "