With docs, there's often a very direct communication between the filmmaker and the audience. With narrative movies, we leave it a little bit more open.

If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.

Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction – but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all.

It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

bonobos, related to chimpanzees and native to the Congo, have been found to engage in French kissing.

If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.

No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.

My dear father! When I remember him, it is always with his arms open wide to love and comfort me.

You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.

A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire us and teach us what is possible