And I realized that to get them I had to figure out how to study. And I did something that has helped me my entire life, and it’s something I still do, which is when I don’t know how to do something now I start reading about it. Back then I would ask people for help.

It was basically writing. I loved watching sports and writing about them. So I was sports editor of the school paper and I worked weekends at the Long Beach Press Telegram, near my home in southern California. Just primarily an interest in sports, then from that developed the athletic publicity work that I did in school.

I think that it is necessary to implant in children the love for science from the very beginning, and mostly the love for asking questions about the universe, for example why does the sun rise in the morning? Or what allows life on earth? Why earth is so unique compared to the moon? Or about our own body and evolution: what happened to us?

I feel myself still like a student learning many things doing films.

William Greaves’s film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm was an important early influence…Stuart Hall was a massive influence on this film

she convinced me to use a Bolex. Then suddenly I got obsessed

I prefer not to compartmentalize my life.

I’d have lesser expectations — those expectations not being as great might actually be more effective

I tried to get funding to shoot this film and couldn’t—nobody wanted to touch it, you know?

I finished it only to get on set and start re-writing everything.