I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A. Baker, and I mention a book, "read this, read it, read it if you are serious of being in any type of art or into filmmaking," or films that I should quote as examples.

It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.

Nature is monumentally indifferent.

It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

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.