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
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I’m good at that! – Werner Herzog
I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. – Werner Herzog
Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. – Werner Herzog
I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog. – Werner Herzog
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
I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there’s insecurity, collapse of financial systems – that’s where film noir always hits fertile ground. – Werner Herzog
I’m not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming – I’ve always been a man of the theaters. – Werner Herzog
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
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
I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. – Werner Herzog
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It’s an ego trip, and I’m not on an ego trip. I don’t have ambitions – I have a vision. – Werner Herzog
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it’s not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it’s not your fault. – Werner Herzog
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. – Werner Herzog
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment. – Werner Herzog
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
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk. – Werner Herzog
If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn’t matter whether you’re bold or cowardly, or whether you’re stupid or intelligent. Doesn’t get you anywhere. – Werner Herzog
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. – Werner Herzog
