Werner Herzog
Visionary filmmaker and profound quotable figure
Most quoted
"There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization."
— from Minnesota Declaration, 1999
"I don't think there's any such thing as 'nature' in the abstract. There's only the nature of this particular jungle, this particular desert, this particular mountain range. And they are all hostile."
— from Various interviews
"I don't think there's any such thing as a natural born filmmaker. I think you have to be a little bit crazy to want to be a filmmaker."
— from Interview
All quotes by Werner Herzog (379)
The only way to find peace is to make peace with yourself.
The human condition is a paradox of strength and vulnerability.
The world is a riddle, and we are the solvers.
The world is a journey, and we are the travelers.
The human soul yearns for something beyond the tangible.
The world is a mystery, and we are the seekers.
The only way to truly appreciate life is to contemplate death.
The world is a story, and we are the characters.
The human spirit is a force of nature.
The world is a canvas, and we are the painters of our own destiny.
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and madness.
I don't think there's any such thing as a natural born filmmaker. I think you have to be a little bit crazy to want to be a filmmaker.
The film director is a kind of a shaman, a magician, a hypnotist.
The jungle is not a place for humans.
I think we have to be very careful not to confuse the world with the world that we have created in our minds.
The truth is not out there, it's in here.
I'm not a documentarian, I'm a storyteller.
I don't believe in happy endings. I believe in endings that are true.
The world is full of ghosts, and I'm one of them.
The best way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Contemporaries of Werner Herzog
Other Film & Theaters born within 50 years of Werner Herzog (1942).