The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.

[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes. I can edit almost as fast as I'm thinking, editing with celluloid means always searching for this little reel of film, and number it, and scribble on it with some sort of pens, and gluing it together, and working on a flatbed. It's much, much slower.

I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.

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

I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

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