Werner Herzog

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail…

— Werner Herzog

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

— Werner Herzog

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.

— Werner Herzog

When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense…

— Werner Herzog

If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent…

— Werner Herzog

I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

— Werner Herzog

It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me…

— Werner Herzog

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

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with…

— Werner Herzog

ِِِِِِِِِِArt house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see.…

— Werner Herzog

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when…

— Werner Herzog

Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever -…

— Werner Herzog

I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.

— Werner Herzog

For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that…

— Werner Herzog

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

After "Jack Reacher" the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.

— Werner Herzog

Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish…

— Werner Herzog

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no…

— Werner Herzog

I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.

— Werner Herzog

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.

— Werner Herzog

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

— Werner Herzog

I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I…

— Werner Herzog

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

— Werner Herzog

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite…

— Werner Herzog

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished,…

— Werner Herzog