"I do have a very, very big problem with someone who saw me coming and exploited me as a mascot."

“It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.”

“The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.”

“You have to remain open to the situation that you're filming otherwise you might miss the story.”

Source : "Even Oscar Nominated Doc Filmmakers Need a Second Job (and Other Things We Learned at Joe Berlinger’s Master Class| by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. June 10, 2014.

“Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.”

“Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.”

“The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.”

Source : Pat Barker (1996). “The Regeneration Trilogy”, Gardners Books

“We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.”

“Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.”