When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense… — 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… — 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… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot. — 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 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
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
I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking… — 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 doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film. — 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
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 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
I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that… — 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
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
Orson Welles, one of the best of the best. One of the strongest. As strong as an animal. He somehow was pushed… — 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
It is something more fleeting than what you normally see. People might somehow take it into their own dreams, into their own… — 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
