When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.

It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.

After "Jack Reacher" the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

I do not want to have a cell phone. I do not want it for cultural reasons. I do not want to be available all the time. I want to have time to think and to touch somebody, and have a meal across my kitchen table without a cell phone, being constantly on tweets.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.