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)
Wisdom comes from experience, but experience is what we lack.
Love is an untamed force.
The artist must be a madman, but controlled.
Politics is the art of the possible, but cinema is the art of the impossible.
I have always been a wanderer.
The human spirit is indomitable.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
The cinema is truth 24 times per second.
I prefer the tumult of ecstasy to the calm of fear.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool.
In the face of death, we find our true selves.
Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
The only way to deal with fear is to face it.
Wit is educated insolence.
The earth is a fine place and worth fighting for.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a dark room.
We are all storytellers; some just use cameras.
Contemporaries of Werner Herzog
Other Film & Theaters born within 50 years of Werner Herzog (1942).