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
[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can… — 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 -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The internet doesn't have any qualities, technical qualities. It's just fast, reaching out everywhere and so, it can process that and that… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We haven't seen a real volcanic event at least in 74,000 years - [Mount Toba] in Indonesia, in Sumatra, where the crater… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were… — 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
This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It's very enigmatic because of course, the population [of North Korea] has no contact with the world outside or it's very, very… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is… — 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
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
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
![“[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9f2/werner-herzog-964_depraved_internet-is-amazing-as-much-as-human-bei_994569.jpg)
![“At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/762/werner-herzog-964_commentary_at-the-end-when-i-speak-about-magma-unde_1733777.jpg)
![“We haven't seen a real volcanic event at least in 74,000 years - [Mount Toba] in Indonesia, in Sumatra, where the crater itself is 100 kilometers across. It was so monumental, what happened, that for a very long time the entire atmosphere of our planet was darkened. It's not the lava and the heat…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/826/werner-herzog-964_atmosphere_we-haven-t-seen-a-real-volcanic-event-at_685425.jpg)
![“Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5fb/werner-herzog-964_agree_our-presence-on-this-planet-does-not-see_665824.jpg)
![“[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were there, they found the fossilized excrement of a lion that had turned into stone, and we would immediately start to concoct stories. Was it a lion that killed the early human? Of…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/569/werner-herzog-964_courses_tim-white-always-spoke-about-his-work-in_303632.jpg)
![“It's very enigmatic because of course, the population [of North Korea] has no contact with the world outside or it's very, very limited. They don't have any telephone connections, no radio, no TV, no movies, no newspapers - nothing from the outside world. This is very strange and there's the very…” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fed/werner-herzog-964_cards_it-s-very-enigmatic-because-of-course-th_1889102.jpg)
![“The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b4/werner-herzog-964_care_the-universe-couldn-t-care-less-about-us_3177986.jpg)
