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Explore our hand-picked selection of 296 inspiring quotes by Werner Herzog.

About Werner Herzog

  • Born: September 5, 1942
  • Occupation: Film Director
    • I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from verdi's "requiem" in the film. you hear it when you see the lava flow in iceland. that turned out to be a very easy choice.
    Iceland Choices Feelings
    It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. you see it in particular in the chapter "iceland" where i'm reciting ancient icelandic poetry. it has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.
    Beautiful Volcanoes Iceland
    There's a completely new culture out there. i'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but i see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.
    Civilization Vehemence Culture
    Of course, you do not do any research: you have to go there and do your film. it's not that i would travel there before without a camera and spend half a year on one of those volcanoes and then come back with a camera. you have to have some sort of a clear mindset.
    Volcanoes Years Cameras
    I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, i'm good at that.
    Knows Hostile Screens
    When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. you have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility when you're trespassing. i think you haven't seen a film on volcanoes like that before. it's not national geographic. it is wildly imaginative and very poetic and has a sense of awe that you normally do not see in films.
    Responsibility Thinking Volcanoes
    At the end [when i speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. you see, you would never hear anything like that in a national geographic or a pbs movie. this is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.
    Pbs Vapid Roaches
    If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
    Real Tails Substance
    I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
    Thinking Warfare Killing
    North korea is not an exception. even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.
    Thinking Volcanoes Korea
    I had complete freedom. they [netflix] knew roughly what i was doing.
    Netflix Complete Freedom
    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.
    Artist Feelings Craftsman
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