"The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing."

"I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home."

"Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you."

"Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow."

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

"I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."

"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."