Werner Herzog Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Werner Herzog:

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

Werner Herzog

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!

Werner Herzog

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.

Werner Herzog

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.

Werner Herzog

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

Werner Herzog

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

Werner Herzog

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

Werner Herzog

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.

Werner Herzog

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

Werner Herzog

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Werner Herzog

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.

Werner Herzog

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

Werner Herzog

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

Werner Herzog

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.

Werner Herzog

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

Werner Herzog

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Werner Herzog

I'm the last one who would do self-analysis.

Werner Herzog

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

Werner Herzog

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.

Werner Herzog

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.

Werner Herzog

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

Werner Herzog

I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.

Werner Herzog

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.

Werner Herzog

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.

Werner Herzog

I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

Werner Herzog

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

Werner Herzog

I'm not an activist.

Werner Herzog