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I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

I turned down a lot of films.

When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

I didn't quit movies. They quit me.

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

I love animals and I love to see movies with animals that are done respectfully, you know?