Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I… — 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 can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I'm not a citizen of America, I cannot vote. But it is fascinating because there's a new kind of protagonist out there… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that… — 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
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 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
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
There are certain ways, narrative forms, that do not function as a continuation, for example, of 3D movies. You see, what is… — 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… — 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
I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I… — 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
By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film,… — 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
![“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/img-quotes/a30/werner-herzog-964_audience_the-opinion-of-the-public-is-sacred-the_2445813.jpg)
![“I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't even try. I was realistic of what I could do and yet persuaded them into accepting numerous things that I shouldn't have filmed.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/532/werner-herzog-964_accepting_i-couldn-t-roam-wildly-and-speak-secretl_537261.jpg)
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