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
The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even… — 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
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
Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through… — 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
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
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
Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say… — 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
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
Of course there's a value in a storyboard if you do a big - let's say an action movie and actors have… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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
Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of… — 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
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
By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film,… — 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
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
In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If… — 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
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… — 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
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
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
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
It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's… — 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
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
My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and 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
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
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
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
I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done. — Werner Herzog Copy Share
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
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
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
ِِِِِِِِِِ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
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
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
For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share
![“The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c0/werner-herzog-964_encounters_the-volcano-itself-wasn-t-that-interesti_2537122.jpg)
![“When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/728/werner-herzog-964_able_when-you-look-at-any-of-my-films-you-wil_3026442.jpg)
![“I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer].” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab8/werner-herzog-964_casts_i-always-felt-completely-confident-it-s_999879.jpg)
![“Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e24/werner-herzog-964_closest_clive-oppenheimer-and-i-figured-out-that_2885607.jpg)
![“[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/i/4e3/werner-herzog-964_acting_this-kind-of-strange-mythology-about-me_2106142.jpg)
![“Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I love celluloid but I don't need to continue on celluloid.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc9/werner-herzog-964_celluloid_otherwise-digital-revolution-hasn-t-chan_2966403.jpg)
