Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog Stipetić, known as Werner Herzog, is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor and opera director...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth5 September 1942
CityMunich, Germany
CountryGermany
vibrancy energy sometimes
It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.
maps underwear toothbrushes
I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
clouds glasses fog
Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?
thinking age quests
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
heart men solitude
I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.
party red events
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.
killing form surrealism
THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.
punishment years disagree
The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
certain dreamed exist honour human landscapes perhaps planets respect seek utopian
Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.
particular running stepping
I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.
rid
I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
almost art audiences aware german-director means shift theaters
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.
films time
I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.
dictionary
I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.