“At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.” Quote by Werner Herzog
“I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.” PeopleDangerHandleCuriousPermanenceVolcanoes Author:Werner Herzog
“It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.” PeopleExampleStrangeChineseBordersKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanVolcanoesBirthplace Author:Werner Herzog
“In the communist revolution in North Korea, when they threw out the Japanese occupiers, they claimed the power in the dynamic of this volcano for their revolution, saying that this is at the center of the dynamics of our revolution. Everything that you encounter - you don't have, for example, any advertisements, you don't have anything like that anywhere in the country - if you see anything it would be propaganda, and propaganda always inevitably comes back to the volcano. It's always including the volcano. You see the new leader and standing behind him you see the volcano.” IfsCountryWould BeBehindsLeaderExampleRevolutionStandingIncludingPropagandaEncountersCommunistKoreaNorth KoreaAdvertisementsDynamicsVolcanoes 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
“The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.” VisibleEvidentVolcanoes Author:Werner Herzog
“It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.” WorldMythologyVolcanoes Author:Werner Herzog
“North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.” ThinkingWould BeRevolutionConnectedMythExceptionSoberKoreaNorth KoreaVolcanoes Author:Werner Herzog
“It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.” BeautifulParticularCuriosityAncientChaptersVery BeautifulVolcanoesConjunctionsIcelandRecitingGravitas Author:Werner Herzog
“I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.” CreationMythologyMonstersDemonVolcanoesGods And Monsters 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