Werner Herzog Quotes

Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.

What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.

However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.

Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.

North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.

In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.

[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.

Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.

I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.

Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.

I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.

Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.

I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.

If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.

The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?

I don't want to travel.

When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.

I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.

Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.

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

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

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