"at the press conference for the film he……" — Werner Herzog
"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 for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again"
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115 Quotes by Werner Herzog
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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…
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Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to…
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The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and…
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For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for…
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A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it…
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I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever…
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If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with…
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of…
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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my…
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We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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