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Film Quotes by Werner Herzog
- 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…
- Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
- I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
- Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from…
- There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure…
- I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
- If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
- The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex…
- You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
- I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
- I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
- If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
- For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner…
- You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
- I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do…
- You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
- at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea…
- Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
- If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines…
- I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
- Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
- Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
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