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

The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?

I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.

You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

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.