I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.
When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.
I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.
If you're making films in New Zealand, you can't avoid the landscape. It's certainly more handsome than I am.
Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.
