To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

It's time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for?

Will we be able to imagine a new culture of water?

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.

I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

It was great to fight in training, great to fight in the race, but you don't need to fight in a press conference, or an interview, or a personal interaction.

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.