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.

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

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

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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