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
The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.
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I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.
I'm the last one who would do self-analysis.
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I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.
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Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.
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I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
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I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.
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Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.
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Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
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Strangely enough, I've always believed that my stories were mainstream stories; the films are narrated in a way that you never have a boring moment.
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Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not the one I set out to tell, ... I had no opinion about Treadwell . . . I gave him space, let him tell me his story. And it was pretty easy to see that he was haunted by demons -- illuminated, courageous and cowardly, exhilarated and in love with the idea of himself as a star.
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I just hope it's a small one. I only travel light. It's got to fit in my hand-held luggage.
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I love my movies as they are. I let them develop their own lives.
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I'm making films for an audience out there and a very tiny fraction of them are would-be filmmakers. But let's speak of them-the would-be filmmakers, the tiny fraction. I've witnessed many times when I've showed films and was present at a screening that exactly those people feel very much encouraged by what I'm doing.