86 Quotes by Jeremy Wade

They paired all of the Colonists up with an Indian and, at one point, my partner got hurt. So they matched me up with another Indian to work out some of the fight scenes, and he was huge.

It's not your standard, full-of-action kind of film. There are a lot of establishing shots, showing nature and birds, things like that. I'm sure it's very well done.

I've just had too much school work to do.

I know he's a true director, in that he doesn't care how long it takes to get what he needs.

Casting a line into the water is like asking a question. Something could be right underneath you, but you can’t see it – it’s there but not there.

To a large extent we see what we want to see rather than what is really there.

Once a myth becomes established, it forms part of our mental model of the world and alters our perception, the way our brains interpret the fleeting patterns our eyes pick up.

I made a series set in India that was more of a conventional fishing show. The fish were very uncooperative, so we were casting around for other bits of local color. We heard local stories of something pulling people into the water. They called it the Kali man-eater. We did a bit of a feature on this, and if formed part of that series.

Fishing is quite a good metaphor for life. You do your prep, you do your thinking, you put your bait out, and you wait, confident that you've done your groundwork. But a lot of life is luck.