Wes: Cousteau began as a hunter and he became a conserver, what we think of now as an environmentalist. But in his early stuff there was no element of that whatsoever. He'd find a lagoon he wanted to survey and blow it up and count the dead animals on the beach. That was a time when we were all so naive, when we thought nature was like god and would go on for ever.
Wes: [The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou] is done. You can't go back and fix it. And I know that feeling of looking back and thinking, that part I'd like to fix. So I obsessively try not to compromise.