One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it! — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking;… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
My crew [on "Fitzcarraldo" filming] actually said, "We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Otherwise you have to repeat a lot when you're filming. And I've seen the film and it's in a border town in… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film"… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that. — Werner Herzog Copy Share
When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done. — Werner Herzog Copy Share
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a subject. They… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
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 Copy Share
ِِِِِِِِِِArt house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever - human solitude… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
![“When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/728/werner-herzog-964_able_when-you-look-at-any-of-my-films-you-wil_3026442.jpg)
![“My crew [on "Fitzcarraldo" filming] actually said, "We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship]," and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3b3/werner-herzog-964_actors_my-crew-on-fitzcarraldo-filming-actually_1435630.jpg)
![“The 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[...]” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a30/werner-herzog-964_audience_the-opinion-of-the-public-is-sacred-the_2445813.jpg)
![“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"].” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8f2/werner-herzog-964_caribbean_it-was-a-subject-volcanoes-that-was-dorm_2650949.jpg)
