I always loved celluloid cameras in the early days that were sturdy and reliable. Even under tropical conditions and downpour of rain, it would still work.
Werner HerzogEverything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.
Werner HerzogThe punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
Werner HerzogAt the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.
Werner HerzogThe opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]
Werner HerzogThis is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.
Werner Herzog