The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Of course, you do not do any research: you have to go there and do your film. It's not that I would… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It's very enigmatic because of course, the population [of North Korea] has no contact with the world outside or it's very, very… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
In the communist revolution in North Korea, when they threw out the Japanese occupiers, they claimed the power in the dynamic of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that. — Werner Herzog Copy Share
When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done. — Werner Herzog Copy Share
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a subject. They… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him, — Werner Herzog Copy Share
ِِِِِِِِِِArt house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever - human solitude… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
![“It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave ["La Soufrière"].” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8f2/werner-herzog-964_caribbean_it-was-a-subject-volcanoes-that-was-dorm_2650949.jpg)
![“The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6c0/werner-herzog-964_encounters_the-volcano-itself-wasn-t-that-interesti_2537122.jpg)
![“The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/75f/werner-herzog-964_cameras_the-wonderful-thing-is-that-clive-oppenh_2489292.jpg)
![“It's very enigmatic because of course, the population [of North Korea] has no contact with the world outside or it's very, very limited. They don't have any telephone connections, no radio, no TV, no movies, no newspapers - nothing from the outside world. This is very strange and there's the very…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fed/werner-herzog-964_cards_it-s-very-enigmatic-because-of-course-th_1889102.jpg)
![“[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes. I can edit almost as fast as I'm thinking, editing with celluloid means always searching for this little reel of film, and number it, and scribble on it with some sort of…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/be8/werner-herzog-964_celluloid_digital-revolution-only-has-allowed-me-t_1478359.jpg)
![“Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e24/werner-herzog-964_closest_clive-oppenheimer-and-i-figured-out-that_2885607.jpg)
