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
nature feet world
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
world may watches
May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
real apples tree
Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.
men interesting people
The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.
cinema poetic made
One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
art film scholar
Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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.
character film
I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer].
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.
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.
devil film hell
I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
men lucky tomorrow
We were very, very lucky [with Tim White filmed making historic discoveries in the East African Rift ] . In 100 years, only three skeletal remains [of early man] were ever found at this site. This was the third one, and we were right there when it happened. In fact, when I first heard they had found something, I said, "Please stop it! Don't do anything right now. Let's do it tomorrow until we have unpacked our cameras and assembled our stuff.
real eye stupidity
Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
ocean civilization ice
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.