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
splendor creation stellar
The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
life nice mean
You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.
wall people important
Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.
people silence scream
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
travel feet tourism
Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
weed mistake hippie
I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to be all the time stoned and on weed. It didn't look right and it doesn't look right today either and the damage drugs have done to civilizations are too enormous. And besides, I don't need any drug to step out of myself. I don't want them and I do not need them.
respect hate thinking
People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
ambition want labs
If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
grateful ought knows
We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.
truth illumination facts
Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
ambition ego vision
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
products
I am a product of my failures,
religious men people
Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.
exotic form surroundings
I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.