Werner Herzog Quotes

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!
Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
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.
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.
I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.
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