In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.
I can't really change for a climate. I've got to be Theophilus London in any weather.
People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.