Ten 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 HerzogI have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
Werner HerzogWell they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
Werner HerzogI know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
Werner Herzog