I Think I'm A Prudent Filmmaker.

I Have Always Postulated That We Have To Find A New Way To Deal With Reality. It's Not So Much Facts That Interest Me, But A Deeper Truth In Them - An Ecstasy Of Truth, An Ecstatic Truth That Illuminates Us. That's What I've Been After.

I'm Very, Very Curious About How People Live Under The Volcano, How They Handle The Permanence Of Danger.

It's Curiosity, And Always A Sense Of Poetry. You See It In Particular In The Chapter "iceland" Where I'm Reciting Ancient Icelandic Poetry. It Has This Very Beautiful Gravitas In Conjunction With The Volcanoes.

I Think Psychology And Self-reflection Is One Of The Major Catastrophes Of The Twentieth Century.

I Would Travel Down To Hell And Wrestle A Film Away From The Devil If It Was Necessary.