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
country art mind
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
civilization dinosaurs adequate
We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.
cinema poetic made
One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
communication technology phones
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
perseverance hard-work years
Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.
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.
half dinosaurs faces
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
feet cooking alternatives
I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
artist feelings craftsman
I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.
poet journalist
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.
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.