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I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
— Werner Herzog
I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
— Werner Herzog
Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.
— Werner Herzog
You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
— Werner Herzog
We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.
— Werner Herzog
I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
— Werner Herzog
There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
— Werner Herzog
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
— Werner Herzog
With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
— Werner Herzog
I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
— Werner Herzog
I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.
— Werner Herzog
It is only through writing that I become myself
— Werner Herzog
I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
— Werner Herzog
Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.
— Werner Herzog
Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read ... if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
— Werner Herzog
I love nature, but against my better judgment.
— Werner Herzog
I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
— Werner Herzog
I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
— Werner Herzog
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
— Werner Herzog
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James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
— Werner Herzog
I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
— Werner Herzog
The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
— Werner Herzog
If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
— Werner Herzog
The chicken's still dancingthe chicken won't stop — Sarah Kane
I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.
— Werner Herzog
I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.
— Werner Herzog
Get used to the bear behind you.
— Werner Herzog
I'm the last one who would do self-analysis.
— Werner Herzog
I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.
— Werner Herzog
I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.
— Werner Herzog
I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
— Werner Herzog
I am a product of my failures,
— Werner Herzog
I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
— Werner Herzog
I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
— Werner Herzog
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
— Werner Herzog
May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
— Werner Herzog
I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
— Werner Herzog
You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
— Werner Herzog
THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.
— Werner Herzog
The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
— Werner Herzog
I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
— Werner Herzog
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
— Werner Herzog
Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
— Werner Herzog
Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set,
— Werner Herzog
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
— Werner Herzog
I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
— Werner Herzog
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
— Werner Herzog
It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.
— Werner Herzog
In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.
— Philippe Petit
Facts do not constitute truth,
— Werner Herzog
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.
— Werner Herzog
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
— Werner Herzog
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!
— Werner Herzog
I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
— Werner Herzog
South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.
— Richard Stanley
One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers.
— Werner Herzog
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
— Werner Herzog
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
— Werner Herzog
I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
— Werner Herzog
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
— Werner Herzog
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
— Werner Herzog
Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.
— Werner Herzog
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
— Werner Herzog
I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
— Werner Herzog
If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
— Werner Herzog
If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
— Werner Herzog
I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
— Werner Herzog
Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
— Werner Herzog
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
— Werner Herzog
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
— Werner Herzog
Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
— Werner Herzog
Tourism is a mortal sin.
— Werner Herzog
Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
— Werner Herzog
I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
— Abel Ferrara
Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
— Werner Herzog
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
— Werner Herzog
I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.
— Werner Herzog
I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
— Werner Herzog
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
— Werner Herzog
I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.
— Werner Herzog
The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.
— Werner Herzog