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 relying on your creative instincts and you're not relying on something which brings life into movies and excitement… — 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 right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed… — 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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