The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.

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

Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.

The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.