I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't… — 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 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
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
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
Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea].… — 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
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
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
Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
ِِِِِِِِِِ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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
