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
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
[ 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
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
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
I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary. — 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
I run my own film school, the Rogue Film School, and I do it over three and a half days, eight hours… — 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
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. — 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
[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
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
The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to… — 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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