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Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
German Director
Born: Sep 5, 1942
Film Man Out Think Would You
Related authors: Douglas Sirk Leni Riefenstahl Lexi Alexander Mike Nichols Rainer Werner Fassbinder Til Schweiger Wim Wenders
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. Werner Herzog
Darkness Ocean Chaos Civilization Layer Like Ice Deep Thin
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. Werner Herzog
Travel World Those Foot Reveals Itself Who
Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart. Werner Herzog
Life Heart Events Will Doubt Suitable Our Our Planet Has-Been Constant No Doubt Vanish More Cataclysmic Been Than Planet Series Extinction
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
Life You Quality People Live Life Word Young Nice Live Must More Purity Raw Academia Quality Of Life Makes Mexicans Very Than Just Forms Young People Mean Elementary Filmmaker
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
You Creativity Think Worst Intuition Happen Storyboard Fantasy Working Filmmaking
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. Werner Herzog
Think Major Psychology Century Twentieth Twentieth Century
I'm not an activist. Werner Herzog
Activist
I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. Werner Herzog
War Think Classes Yoga Against Holy Should
I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. Werner Herzog
Travel Toothbrush Without Underwear Any Just Barely Map Luggage Binoculars Second Set
Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge. Werner Herzog
Man Joy Like Sheer Antarctica Go Storytelling Urge Film Why
I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. Werner Herzog
Nights Sleepless Sleepless Nights Spend Bad Over Reviews Very Getting
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. Werner Herzog
Poet Journalist
I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations. Werner Herzog
Interviewer Conversations
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
Art Simple Realistic Way See Vanishing Put Disappeared Almost House Audiences Shift Want Theaters Means Aware
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
Dreams Good Great Technology Tool Though Dinosaurs Advantage Years Screen Them Capable Fantastic Creating Show Even Sudden Million Million Years Extinct Great Advantage
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
You Would Laws More Cruise Mainstream Make Sure Accessible Got Audiences Same Substance Certainly Tom Tom Cruise Elements Film Larger
Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. Werner Herzog
Art Scholars Looked Straight Should Film
I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. Werner Herzog
Man Experience Out Adventure Very Professional
I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office. Werner Herzog
Political Beast Out Running Stepping Talent Particular Office Politically Interested
I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time. Werner Herzog
Time Sit Films Look Very Eager
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. Werner Herzog
Love Music Writing Editing Cinema Everything Directing Like Creating Acting Even
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
Business Will Difficult Know Him Knows Always How Cow Actor Milk
I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them. Werner Herzog
Nothing Films See Against Them Need
I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them. Werner Herzog
Me Way Haunt Never Invite Along Come Always Subject Get Did Just Decision-Making Them Rid
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
Work Films Steadily Feels Like Very Walking Just Breathing Notice Working Ever Fast Hardly
I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent. Werner Herzog
Great You Mountains Mine Dream Area Volatile Sahara Go Southern Prudent Northern Chad Map
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