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
You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't… — 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
Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker. — 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
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
