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
writing editing creating
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
ambition want labs
If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
artist feelings craftsman
I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.
useless exhausted evolution
We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.
mean documentaries film
It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.
night insomnia reviews
I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
issues directors miles
Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.
civilization dinosaurs adequate
We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.
film initiative just-do-it
Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
party interesting people
There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could speak on camera. I never got an answer. But what was interesting was the people who were responsible for us, our "guards," it took them two days to figure out how I should address him. "President? No, you can't because there's a president for eternity." And it was a time when his status was still in flux. Only a few months later there was this party congress which assigned an official title to him, but that was after we did our film.
tourism sin mortal-sin
Tourism is a mortal sin.
film excuse
There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
korean film kindergarten
I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do.
men land literature
James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.