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
I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films. — 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
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
“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
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
There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and… — 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
I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about… — 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
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
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
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
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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
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 will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school. — 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
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
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
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
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