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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office. "

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

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

" If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 not an activist. "

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