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  • I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to be all the time stoned and on weed. It didn't look right and it doesn't look right today either and the damage drugs have done to civilizations are too enormous. And besides, I don't need any drug to step out of myself. I don't want them and I do not need them.

    "Werner Herzog on His Unique Career, Clowns, and Getting Punk’d by Mel Brooks". Interview with Steve Marsh, www.vulture.com. August 3, 2014.