“However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.” Quote by 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
“When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.” LooksBeautifulFilmDangerousCinematic 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
“We haven't seen a real volcanic event at least in 74,000 years - [Mount Toba] in Indonesia, in Sumatra, where the crater itself is 100 kilometers across. It was so monumental, what happened, that for a very long time the entire atmosphere of our planet was darkened. It's not the lava and the heat per se; it's the obscuring of the entire atmosphere, and it made it very difficult for the human race to survive.” YearsHumansLongMadeRealDifficultRaceHappenedEventsHavensPlanetsLong TimeMade ItAtmosphereHuman RaceHeatOur PlanetIndonesiaLavaCraters Author:Werner Herzog
“I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.” PeopleThinkingYearsStatesMovingUnitedUnited StatesHappenedEventsConsequenceYears AgoTiny Author:Werner Herzog
“At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.” NeedsBreathingAtmosphereMagnificentVolcanoes Author: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