Art Quote by Werner Herzog

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

— Werner Herzog

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

— Werner Herzog

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

— Werner Herzog

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

— Peter Greenaway

The film culture has no room for ideas. The literary culture has some room, but not less than they should, and the academic culture…

— Richard Linklater

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

— Werner Herzog

Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.

— Paul Morrissey

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

— Ray Bradbury

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

— John Hurt

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

— Brit Marling

That said, be mindful, to someone who's never seen any of my work, it's just a movie with actors. So it's only those who…

— Todd Solondz