I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace… — 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
Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it… — 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
I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The… — 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
Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do… — 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
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
It is something more fleeting than what you normally see. People might somehow take it into their own dreams, into their own… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The daredevil aspect to what I did there is moving a monstrously big ship over a mountain in the jungle of Peru… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain… — 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
![“I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7fa/werner-herzog-964_chairman_i-do-not-recall-to-kim-jong-un-but-it-wa_3127317.jpg)
![“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/img-quotes/6c0/werner-herzog-964_encounters_the-volcano-itself-wasn-t-that-interesti_2537122.jpg)
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