Werner Herzog - From the Ambition category:
If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it! (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Artists category:
I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with. (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Eccentricity category:
-said while making Fitzcarraldo... I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum. (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Happiness category:
I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms. (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Imagination category:
Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix... (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Leadership category:
I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals. (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Mysteries category:
There is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization. (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Perseverance category:
-said while making Fitzcarraldo... If I abandon this project I would be a man without dreams and I don't want to live like that: I live my life or I end my life with this project. (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Questions category:
What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs. (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Subject category:
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 landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films. (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Technology category:
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion. (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Truth category:
Fact creates norms, and truth illumination. (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Universe category:
We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile. (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Unknowns category:
I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings. (Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog - From the Words category:
We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field. (Werner Herzog)
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