Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. Werner Herzog More Quotes by Werner Herzog More Quotes From Werner Herzog Orson Welles, one of the best of the best. One of the strongest. As strong as an animal. He somehow was pushed out of the business because he would spend the entire budget of the film before he had even done half the pre-production. Werner Herzog strongdoneanimal If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it. Werner Herzog helldevilfilm 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 nicelifemean The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor. Werner Herzog stellarsplendorcreation If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival. Werner Herzog financesurvivallong Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue. Werner Herzog tourismfeettravel When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that. Werner Herzog volcanoescamerasearth I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed. Werner Herzog landscapeplanets By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000. Werner Herzog camerasnarrativeediting I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do. Werner Herzog cambridge-universityvolcanoesable I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. Werner Herzog hardfilmenough I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger. Werner Herzog volcanoescuriouspeople Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. Werner Herzog despairtrouble Nature is monumentally indifferent. Werner Herzog indifferent I am a product of my failures. Werner Herzog products All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in a language of their age group which I have to learn first. Werner Herzog groupsageyears I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons. Werner Herzog volcanoesdemonmonsters Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not relying on your creative instincts and you're not relying on something which brings life into movies and excitement into it. Werner Herzog shootingcreativebook I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog. Werner Herzog pretendinginternetinteresting There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. Werner Herzog elementssubstancelaw
