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I'm A Curious Guy. I Can't Turn Away From An Investigative Story, When It Comes To The Forensic Analysis. I've Done 33 Dives, To The Titanic Wreck Site. I've Spent Over 50 Hours Piloting Robotic Vehicles At That Wreck Trying To Piece Together What Happened During The Disaster. How The Ship Broke Up, Comparing The Historical Record With The Forensic Record. Documentaries Are Kind Of My New Life. I Love Documentary Filmmaking.

If You Faced A Long Hungry Period With Nothing Between You And Starvation But A Bit Of Barley And A Pig, You'd Be Better Off Turning The Barley Into Beer And Letting The Pig Starve.

I Watched A Couple Of Really Bad Directors Work, And I Saw How They Completely Botched It Up And Missed The Visual Opportunities Of The Scene When We Had Put Things In Front Of Them As Opportunities. Set Pieces, Props And So On.

Don't Get Seduced By Your Own Stuff. Don't Get High On Your Own Supply. The Hardest Thing As A Filmmaker Is When You're Watching A Film That You've Worked On For Several Years. You Know Every Frame So Intimately That Holding Lots Of The Objectivity Of A New Viewer Who Has Just Seen It For The First Time Is The Hardest Thing. Every Aesthetic Decision You Make - And You Make Thousands Of Them Every Day, Have To - In Theory, Must Be Done From You Being A Blank Slate. You Almost Have To Run A Program, Like A Mind Wipe, Every Time You Watch The Movie.

The Snake Kills By Squeezing Very Slowly. This Is How The Civilized World Slowly, Slowly Pushes Into The Forest And Takes Away The World That Used To Be.