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
mind documentaries bears
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
despair trouble
Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.
facts strange sometimes
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
landscape planets
I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
dream country reading
I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.
facts
Facts do not constitute truth,
feet doe world
When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.
people way filmmaker
In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.
giving imagination perspective
I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.
dream would-be want
Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
asylums lunatic-asylums should
I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
film enough hard
I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
wall real drama
The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.
devil film hell
If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.