If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing. — 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
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
For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
You have to realize that, about 20,000 years ago, there was a cataclysmic event when an entire rock face collapsed and sealed… — 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
You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and… — 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
I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I do not want to have a cell phone. I do not want it for cultural reasons. I do not want to… — 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
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