I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth. — 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
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
If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it. — 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
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but… — 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
Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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 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
You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes,… — 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
I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I try to be after something that is deeply reverberating inside of our souls, some deep echo from - even from prehistory.… — 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
The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea].… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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
Of course, you do not do any research: you have to go there and do your film. It's not that I would… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. — 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
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
I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary. — 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
I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films. — 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
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
![“[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4e3/werner-herzog-964_acting_this-kind-of-strange-mythology-about-me_2106142.jpg)
![“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 only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a30/werner-herzog-964_audience_the-opinion-of-the-public-is-sacred-the_2445813.jpg)
![“The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea]. For example, we wanted to film at a certain place and there happened to be a building under construction and it didn't look as fancy as the other buildings, so they wanted us to shoot…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ee3/werner-herzog-964_asks_the-deal-was-we-had-to-have-people-accom_1664745.jpg)
![“[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes. I can edit almost as fast as I'm thinking, editing with celluloid means always searching for this little reel of film, and number it, and scribble on it with some sort of…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/be8/werner-herzog-964_celluloid_digital-revolution-only-has-allowed-me-t_1478359.jpg)
