Werner Herzog

I don't want to travel.

— Werner Herzog

Nature is monumentally indifferent.

— Werner Herzog

Facts do not constitute truth,

— Werner Herzog

I am a product of my failures,

— Werner Herzog

If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.

— Werner Herzog

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

— Werner Herzog

After "Jack Reacher" the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.

— Werner Herzog

I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.

— Werner Herzog

I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.

— Werner Herzog

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

— Werner Herzog

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

— Werner Herzog

I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.

— 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 have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one.…

— 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

Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.

— Werner Herzog

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

— 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

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

— Werner Herzog

[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can…

— Werner Herzog

ِِِِِِِِِِArt house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see.…

— Werner Herzog

Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had…

— Werner Herzog

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a…

— Werner Herzog

All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in…

— Werner Herzog

I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I…

— Werner Herzog

The internet doesn't have any qualities, technical qualities. It's just fast, reaching out everywhere and so, it can process that and that…

— Werner Herzog

I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific…

— Werner Herzog

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work.…

— Werner Herzog

We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV,…

— Werner Herzog

You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and…

— Werner Herzog

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

That shot in "Into the Inferno" somehow popped up while my editor and I were viewing the footage. I immediately said, "That…

— Werner Herzog

“A vision had seized hold of me, like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg…

— Werner Herzog

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't…

— Werner Herzog

We haven't seen a real volcanic event at least in 74,000 years - [Mount Toba] in Indonesia, in Sumatra, where the crater…

— Werner Herzog

Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is…

— Werner Herzog

We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.

— Werner Herzog

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

— Werner Herzog

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

— Werner Herzog

Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set,

— Werner Herzog