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
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
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
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
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
It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago… — 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
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
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 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 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/i/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/i/be8/werner-herzog-964_celluloid_digital-revolution-only-has-allowed-me-t_1478359.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/i/a30/werner-herzog-964_audience_the-opinion-of-the-public-is-sacred-the_2445813.jpg)
![“It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave ["La Soufrière"].” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f2/werner-herzog-964_caribbean_it-was-a-subject-volcanoes-that-was-dorm_2650949.jpg)
