Quotes by Volcanoes It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people. Werner Herzog volcanoes korea people When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility when you're trespassing. I think you haven't seen a film on volcanoes like that before. It's not National Geographic. It is wildly imaginative and very poetic and has a sense of awe that you normally do not see in films. Werner Herzog volcanoes responsibility thinking Of course, you do not do any research: you have to go there and do your film. It's not that I would travel there before without a camera and spend half a year on one of those volcanoes and then come back with a camera. You have to have some sort of a clear mindset. Werner Herzog volcanoes cameras years At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing. Werner Herzog volcanoes atmosphere breathing In the communist revolution in North Korea, when they threw out the Japanese occupiers, they claimed the power in the dynamic of this volcano for their revolution, saying that this is at the center of the dynamics of our revolution. Everything that you encounter - you don't have, for example, any advertisements, you don't have anything like that anywhere in the country - if you see anything it would be propaganda, and propaganda always inevitably comes back to the volcano. It's always including the volcano. You see the new leader and standing behind him you see the volcano. Werner Herzog volcanoes korea country It's very enigmatic because of course, the population [of North Korea] has no contact with the world outside or it's very, very limited. They don't have any telephone connections, no radio, no TV, no movies, no newspapers - nothing from the outside world. This is very strange and there's the very strict, unifying government that forces you to be in step. You see it in the stadium where the spectators create, by flipping cards, an image of the dear leader, or of the volcano, and it's made of a 100,000 human pictures. Werner Herzog volcanoes korea government We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic. Werner Herzog volcanoes kind wish I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes. Werner Herzog volcanoes connections news The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago. Werner Herzog volcanoes training years The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later. Werner Herzog volcanoes men years 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. Werner Herzog iceland volcanoes beautiful 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. Werner Herzog volcanoes korea thinking It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created. Werner Herzog mythology volcanoes world The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable. Werner Herzog volcanoes visible evident However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples. Werner Herzog volcanoes next couple As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment. Werner Herzog volcanoes punishment population It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave ["La Soufrière"]. Werner Herzog volcanoes islands years Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves William Cohen volcanoes eugenics earthquakes Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important. William Cohen volcanoes eugenics real Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man. Xiang Yu volcanoes firefly men «1234567»