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In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.

But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.

Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.