"Everyone who makes films has to be an……" — Werner Herzog
"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 your knees and thighs."
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115 Quotes by Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog has 115 quotes on this site.
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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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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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