“If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!” IfsWantFilmAmbitionCamerasStealingLabsSneak Author:Werner Herzog
“There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could speak on camera. I never got an answer. But what was interesting was the people who were responsible for us, our "guards," it took them two days to figure out how I should address him. "President? No, you can't because there's a president for eternity." And it was a time when his status was still in flux. Only a few months later there was this party congress which assigned an official title to him, but that was after we did our film.” PeopleIfsShouldStillsTwoFilmSpeakPresidentAnswersInterestingPartyFiguresMonthsLettersEternityAskingResponsibleCamerasCongressTitlesOfficialsIf I CouldAddressesTwo DaysKimFluxVolcanoes Author:Werner Herzog
“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.” YearsCertainWonderfulDangerTrainingYears AgoCamerasThreatenedWonderful ThingsReflectingDiscussingVolcanoes Author:Werner Herzog
“We were very, very lucky [with Tim White filmed making historic discoveries in the East African Rift ] . In 100 years, only three skeletal remains [of early man] were ever found at this site. This was the third one, and we were right there when it happened. In fact, when I first heard they had found something, I said, "Please stop it! Don't do anything right now. Let's do it tomorrow until we have unpacked our cameras and assembled our stuff.” MenYearsFirstsSaidFactsThreeFoundStuffWhiteHappenedHeardTomorrowPleaseRight NowLuckyDiscoveryThirdsCamerasRemainsEastSiteHistoricRift Author:Werner Herzog
“That shot in "Into the Inferno" somehow popped up while my editor and I were viewing the footage. I immediately said, "That looks like the opening shot because the camera approaches the action very slowly and we have enough time to insert some of the main credits into it." So it was a practical choice. At the same time, you see these tiny figures standing at the rim of something, and all of a sudden, the camera rises further and you find yourself looking straight down into an inferno.” LooksSaidEnoughActionChoicesFiguresApproachShotsStandingCamerasCreditTinyPracticalsOpeningFinding YourselfEditorsEnough TimeInfernoRimsInsert Author:Werner Herzog
“When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.” EarthUniverseCoursesPlanetsCamerasProportionLooking BackOur PlanetPlanet EarthVolcanoesSpecksSomewhere Out ThereOur Planet EarthMagma Author:Werner Herzog
“Of course, you do not do any research: you have to go there and do your film. It's not that I would travel there before without a camera and spend half a year on one of those volcanoes and then come back with a camera. You have to have some sort of a clear mindset.” YearsFilmCoursesHalfClearResearchCamerasMindsetVolcanoesHalf A Year Author:Werner Herzog
“I run my own film school, the Rogue Film School, and I do it over three and a half days, eight hours non-stop everyday; alone, single-handedly. But the difference is in the Rogue Film School I do have real human beings in front of me from all over the world, and of course there's this course as well, they can ask, talk about their problems and obstacles, finances, anything, you just name it. Whereas in the Masterclass, you are speaking to cameras.” WorldHumansWellsRealProblemRunningSchoolFilmThreeCoursesAsksNamesHoursDifferencesMy OwnHuman BeingsHalfFrontsCamerasEverydayObstaclesEightFinanceRoguesFilm SchoolReal HumanNon StopHalf Days Author:Werner Herzog
“By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.” WayTodayFilmCamerasNarrativeFeaturesDigitalEditingLaptopsDigital Cameras Author:Werner Herzog
“I always loved celluloid cameras in the early days that were sturdy and reliable. Even under tropical conditions and downpour of rain, it would still work.” StillsConditionsRainCamerasTropicalSturdyCelluloid Author:Werner Herzog
“Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.” LooksTodayCamerasDigitalRobustDigital Cameras Author:Werner Herzog
“What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.” KindFacesActorsSkinsCamerasDialogueShootingResolution Author:Werner Herzog
