The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.