"You should look straight at a film; that's……" — Werner Herzog
"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."
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Werner Herzog
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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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