Olga Kurylenko Quotes

I've always wanted to do a shoot with snakes - big snakes, like pythons.

Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

Well, I'm wrestling alligators.

Give me a 15-ft. crocodile any day over a bee.

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.

Cincinnati has one of the most diverse animal collections in the world, with more than 500 species represented. They also have a really good insect exhibit.

Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad.

I was gaga about dinosaurs as a kid.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

They're one of - crocs and snakes are two of my favorite animals. They're so good.

I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

I really think I like poisonous snakes.

It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider.

Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

I think a lot of kids are interested in two science subjects: dinosaurs and aliens. The reason is almost genetic; we're hard-wired to be interested in things that might be a little dangerous.

I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

'Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs.

I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park.

I think, as kids, everyone is fascinated with dinosaurs. I definitely was. It is the ultimate big, huge, monster.

I remember doing a shoot for Herb Ritts, hanging off the Eiffel Tower - that wasn't your usual day at the office. It was terrifying, and in the end, you couldn't really tell how high I was because the photographer was scared of heights, so he was quite far away from me.