Werner Herzog Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

  Werner Herzog

  Film, Initiative, Just Do It

• Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

  Werner Herzog

  Intellectual, Film, Kung Fu

  "Herzog on Herzog: Conversations with Paul Cronin". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

• I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

  Werner Herzog

  Devil, Film, Hell

• While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Passion, Opposites

  "On Filmmaking: Werner Herzog". www.rowthree.com. November 15, 2008.

• I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

  Werner Herzog

  Powerful, Cinema, Film

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Joshua Oppenheimer" by Patrick Brzeski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 2, 2013.

• You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

  Werner Herzog

  Mind, Documentaries, Bears

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 25, 2009.

• Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Film, Scholar

• If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

  Werner Herzog

  Devil, Film, Hell

• When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.

  Werner Herzog

  Feet, Tourism, Doe

  Source: www.slate.com

• You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Looks, Way

• The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."

  Werner Herzog

  Vapid, Roaches, Reptiles

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

  Werner Herzog

  Film, Enough, Hard

• Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Art, Mind

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

• Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.

  Werner Herzog

  Grandchildren, Punishment, Achievement

• If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

  Werner Herzog

  Book, Thinking, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again

  Werner Herzog

  Sea, World, Firsts

• I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.

  Werner Herzog

  Feet, Cooking, Alternatives

• I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture; he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Way, Amazon

• The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea]. For example, we wanted to film at a certain place and there happened to be a building under construction and it didn't look as fancy as the other buildings, so they wanted us to shoot where everything looked finished and made a good impression of the cityscape.

  Werner Herzog

  Korea, People, Example

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• It is something more fleeting than what you normally see. People might somehow take it into their own dreams, into their own life, in a way. I hear it more recently; people are telling me that when they leave the theater and see one of my films, they are not alone anymore. It's probably more that kind of feeling. If I managed to do a film like that, everything is fine.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Of course there's a value in a storyboard if you do a big - let's say an action movie and actors have to move and act in front of a green screen because entire backgrounds exploding and cars flying through there have to be created separately, and in this case you better make sure the actors are precisely placed and the background action is moving in a certain moment, for this type of film you would need a storyboard.

  Werner Herzog

  Moving, Car, Flying

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Werner Herzog

  Two, Looks, Credit

  Source: collider.com

• I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

  Werner Herzog

  Breathing, Film, Working It

  "Werner Herzog Talks Teaching Lock-Picking, Being A Living Legend And 'Into The Abyss'". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.indiewire.com. November 14, 2011.

• The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]

  Werner Herzog

  Light, Directors, Different

• You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

  Werner Herzog

  School, Guatemala, Canada

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