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Quotes from Herzog on Herzog — Werner Herzog

born 1942 Germany

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16 quotes

If I abandon this project I would be a man without dreams and I don't want to live like that: I live my life or I end my life with this project.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

I am fascinated by the idea that our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

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.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

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.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

Often he was a joy, and you know, he was one of the few people I ever learned anything from.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

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.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

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.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

It is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are, and we have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

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 its own character. To suppress this is dangerous.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Werner Herzog (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.