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Jan de Bont

"One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day."

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"One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day."

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Amber Hurdle

"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"

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"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."

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Amber Hurdle

"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."

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Amber Hurdle

"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."

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Amber Hurdle

"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"

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Amber Hurdle

"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

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Amber Hurdle

"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."

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Amber Hurdle

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

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"Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing."
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"We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie."
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"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."
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"I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters."
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"We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero."
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"I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles."
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"Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her."
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"In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement."
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"Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop."
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"This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting."
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