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I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.
We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.
I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.
If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.
If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.
Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.
I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
"Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.
I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.
I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.
Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.
Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.