My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of… — 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
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
I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The… — 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
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
Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. — 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 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
ِِِِِِِِِِ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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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