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
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.