“ Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. Werner Herzog
“ Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop… Werner Herzog
“ I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. Werner Herzog
“ What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. 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
“ 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
“ 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… Werner Herzog
“ For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. Werner Herzog
“ At the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone to… Werner Herzog
“ 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. Werner Herzog
“ I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. Werner Herzog
“ In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel. Werner Herzog
“ Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in th… 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… Werner Herzog
“ Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence. Werner Herzog
“ Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on the wrong train, and did I not learn from the con… Werner Herzog
