[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
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 are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off.… — 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
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We were very, very lucky [with Tim White filmed making historic discoveries in the East African Rift ] . In 100 years,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Of course, you do not do any research: you have to go there and do your film. It's not that I would… — 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
All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in… — 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
If you don't have a deal in two days, you won't have a deal in two years — 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
The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one… — 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
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image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
The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we… — 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