With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
Werner HerzogTen years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.
Werner HerzogWe live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word โchaosโ means โgaping voidโ or โyawning emptiness.โ The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema.
Werner Herzog