We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for 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.
Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking.
I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.
I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.
If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.
We take safety very, very seriously on every film I make, and that's why I've never had a serious accident or anybody killed when I make a picture.
Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.