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
fields would-be cows
We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
behind-you bears used
Get used to the bear behind you.
potato-chips potatoes despise
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.
grandchildren punishment achievement
Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.
useless exhausted evolution
We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.
steps killing genocide
I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
cinema poetic made
One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
harmonious knows universe
The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
devastation fascination crime
There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.
museums venice horizon
If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.
understanding indifference mercy
I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
maps underwear toothbrushes
I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
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.
dictionary
I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.