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
doors trying guests
I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to. It's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.
mistake illumination facts
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
devil film hell
I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
motivation actors conversation
With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
creativity thinking intuition
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.
dream literature might
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is all about... and it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.
decision fiction way
My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. 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.
ocean civilization ice
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
nature feet world
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
people justice criminals
Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
two years deals
If you don't have a deal in two days, you won't have a deal in two years
powerful cinema film
I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
language wonderful urges
English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
ocean men land
Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.