Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema. — 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
Orson Welles, one of the best of the best. One of the strongest. As strong as an animal. He somehow was pushed… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people -… — 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
I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that… — 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
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
For example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It is something more fleeting than what you normally see. People might somehow take it into their own dreams, into their own… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is… — 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
I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when… — 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
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
If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries… — 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
There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems -… — 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 make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And… — 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
Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I… — 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
In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not… — 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
![“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.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6c0/werner-herzog-964_encounters_the-volcano-itself-wasn-t-that-interesti_2537122.jpg)
![“I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer].” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ab8/werner-herzog-964_casts_i-always-felt-completely-confident-it-s_999879.jpg)
![“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)
![“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)
![“For example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his film Viva Zapata!, how he introduces his leading character Marlon Brando into the film. No film ever did it as wonderful as he did it.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6f7/werner-herzog-964_absolutes_for-example-how-you-would-introduce-a-le_2803895.jpg)
![“Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/94a/werner-herzog-964_antarctica_ten-years-ago-in-antarctica-shooting-enc_2781732.jpg)
![“The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3b4/werner-herzog-964_care_the-universe-couldn-t-care-less-about-us_3177986.jpg)
![“Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I love celluloid but I don't need to continue on celluloid.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cc9/werner-herzog-964_celluloid_otherwise-digital-revolution-hasn-t-chan_2966403.jpg)
