May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.

I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was high probability some digital effects were needed, somebody made storyboards and I quickly ignored them, after half an hour I ignored them and I never used any digital effect.