“Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.” PeopleCoursesJusticeCriminalsHandleCriminal Justice Author:Werner Herzog
“Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.” PeopleWorldWellsKindWarEndsStoriesFallCoursesRevolutionMythWar Of The WorldsDemonCategoriesSocialistAdoptedKoreaNorth KoreaSecond World WarDynamicsVolcanoes Author:Werner Herzog
“[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were there, they found the fossilized excrement of a lion that had turned into stone, and we would immediately start to concoct stories. Was it a lion that killed the early human? Of course, the lion could've been there three weeks later, or maybe 20,000 years earlier.” IfsYearsHumansStoriesThreeCoursesFoundTermWhiteWeekCrimeSceneStonesSpokesLionsInvestigatingForensics Author:Werner Herzog
“We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.” KindCoursesWishFascinatingNeighborhoodMagnitudeVolcanoesCinematic Author:Werner Herzog
“Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.” DifferentEarthCoursesPlanetsCorePlanet EarthMagma 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
“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 strict, unifying government that forces you to be in step. You see it in the stadium where the spectators create, by flipping cards, an image of the dear leader, or of the volcano, and it's made of a 100,000 human pictures.” WorldHumansMadeGovernmentCoursesForceLeaderStepsStrangeTvsConnectionsDearPopulationRadioNewspapersContactCardsStrictTelephonesSpectatorsKoreaNorth KoreaStadiumsOutside WorldVolcanoesUnifyingEnigmatic 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
“Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.” CoursesVoiceCommentary 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
“Of course there's a value in a storyboard if you do a big - let's say an action movie and actors have to move and act in front of a green screen because entire backgrounds exploding and cars flying through there have to be created separately, and in this case you better make sure the actors are precisely placed and the background action is moving in a certain moment, for this type of film you would need a storyboard.” IfsNeedsMomentsBigsActionFilmMovingCertainValuesCoursesActorsCasesCarFrontsTypeGreenScreensFlyingBackgroundsAction MovieMoving InExploding Author:Werner Herzog
“Otherwise you have to repeat a lot when you're filming. And I've seen the film and it's in a border town in Mexico close to the border with the United States, so of course you have a lot of traffic and noise and dogs barking right nearby, and for that you have to repeat a lot and Robert Rodriguez didn't do that. Smart, smart, smart, you better have smarts also.” StatesFilmCoursesUnitedUnited StatesDogSmartTownsNoiseBordersRepeatsMexicoTraffic Author:Werner Herzog
“Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.” FirstsAgeFilmCoursesGrowsGrowing UpPathSubjectsFilmmakingTrotting Author:Werner Herzog
“I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.” ThinkingPainFightingCoursesGrowingTreeSurvivalBirdMiseryJungleEroticChokeRottingObscenityAsphyxiation Author:Werner Herzog
