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
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.
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.
travel feet tourism
Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
art looks way
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
people silence scream
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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.
real
Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.
splendor creation stellar
The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
film enough hard
I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
devil film hell
If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
missing soldier serious
Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.
asylums lunatic-asylums should
I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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.
night careers steps
I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.