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
thinking warfare killing
I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
thinking villain bond-movie
I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.
thinking villain weak
I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.
thinking age quests
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
war yoga thinking
I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
thinking filmmaker
I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.
pain thinking bird
The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.
thinking goal care
I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.
athlete thinking cinema
Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.
reflection thinking self
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
thinking able irony
I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
book thinking color
If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
pain fighting thinking
I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.
respect hate thinking
People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.