Fire of Love (2022)

Guillaume Tremblay: Maurice Krafft

Quotes 

• Maurice Krafft : I've seen so many beautiful things. I feel like I'm over 100 years old, with what I've experienced. So frankly, I go without fear.

• Maurice Krafft : It's hard for volcanologists to live together - it's volcanic! We erupt often!

• Maurice Krafft : One of the two volcanologists killed on Mount St. Helens was a long-time friend named David Johnston. He was 10 kilometers north of the volcano. He bore the brunt of the blast. He just had time to say on his radio, "Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!" And we never found the poor man. He was completely swept away by the blast. And why was he in such a dangerous place? Well, we expected the blast to go to the north of the volcano, but we thought it would go no further than 7 or 8 kilometers. In fact, it went up to 30.

• Maurice Krafft : Before every volcanic eruption, the volcano gets the shivers, like a sick person. The Earth shakes due to the rising magma. It also swells, like an abscess is forming. The slopes get steeper, the craters grow bigger. And the breath of the volcano changes too. It turns foul. The composition of the volcanic gases change, and it's temperature rises, as though it had a fever.

• Maurice Krafft : I want to float down a molten lava flow. Katia doesn't want to. She said that she'd take my last photo as I set off.