Werner Herzog quotes and sayings
If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.
Werner Herzog quotes
- Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
- Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart.
- I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
- I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
- Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.
- I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
- I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
- I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!
- I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
- I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.