Werner Herzog Quotes

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• ِِِِِِِِِِ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 have…
• Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right.…
• 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…
• For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let…
• A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In…
• I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to…
• If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
• Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
• I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
• Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution…
• Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my…
• We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
• You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
• I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
• I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
• I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
• I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has…
• If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him,
• Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple…
• Get used to the bear behind you.

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