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
giving imagination perspective
I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.
imagination cinema mysterious
There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
imagination mind coward
Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
bigger build men pyramids
Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.
defending disturbing element harmony human jewel meaning universe
We had some ranting about the meaning of nature, ... And Jewel is more defending Treadwell's position, that there is harmony in the universe and the only disturbing element is human beings. I don't see it that way.
lion odd usual
We are still doing somersaults for it. It's the usual pandemonium that makes moviemaking an odd profession, and I am the lion tamer.
exists forgotten hidden knows minutes nobody
Only 30 minutes from where I live, there is a completely hidden and forgotten archive. Nobody even knows that this exists here.
attitude bears doubts help keeps love nature repeating respect simply toward wild
I have my doubts about his attitude toward wild nature and that he did anything to help the bears, ... Wild nature is simply wild, and we have to respect that. He keeps repeating to the bears 'I love you,' and I think that is wrong. You should respect the distance.
easy films
Many of my films have not been easy work,
fills joy
It fills me with joy to see Dieter (Dengler) again.
australian left matter whether
I have never left my culture. It doesn't matter whether I film with Australian aborigines or in Antarctica.
apart bare dealer looking mean milk people
I can tell those apart who can milk a cow, I mean with their bare hands. Sometimes people can tell by looking at someone, 'Aha, this must be a drug dealer or this must a lawyer.
I'm the last one who would do self-analysis.
films time
I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.