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
years dating radio
You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.
art passion opposites
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
dream ocean sleep
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
mistake illumination facts
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
serious world film
Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.
intellectual film kung-fu
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
filmmaking filmmaker ifs
Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
believe common chaos
I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.
crime week scene
[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were there, they found the fossilized excrement of a lion that had turned into stone, and we would immediately start to concoct stories. Was it a lion that killed the early human? Of course, the lion could've been there three weeks later, or maybe 20,000 years earlier.
demon divine
As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
care film retarded
The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."
I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.
Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.
running president different
The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?