I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

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

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

It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.

North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.