Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. Werner Herzog More Quotes by Werner Herzog More Quotes From Werner Herzog The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages. Werner Herzog netflix buttons country I think I'm a prudent filmmaker. Werner Herzog prudent filmmaker thinking I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that. Werner Herzog leader military people The internet doesn't have any qualities, technical qualities. It's just fast, reaching out everywhere and so, it can process that and that volume of data flows and so, but it doesn't have any qualities like "good" or "bad" or "ethical" or "non-ethical". It's humans, it's us, not the internet. Werner Herzog data quality flow Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common. Werner Herzog curiosity spirit common The daredevil aspect to what I did there is moving a monstrously big ship over a mountain in the jungle of Peru with 800 or 900 or so native people from the area. So that idea was wild but the way it was executed was prudent. Nobody was ever hurt and when it became clear that we had to be more secure with the posts that would hold the ship, I spent 12 days having a post built that would have withstood the force of 10 times the weight of my ship. Werner Herzog hurt ideas moving We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another 100,000 years?" In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now. Werner Herzog phrases years interesting North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation. Werner Herzog mythology korea influence [Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be. Werner Herzog depraved internet humans Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together. Werner Herzog germany together country I am too much into what I'm doing in my work. Werner Herzog too-much Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible. Werner Herzog volcanoes film stupid Otherwise you have to repeat a lot when you're filming. And I've seen the film and it's in a border town in Mexico close to the border with the United States, so of course you have a lot of traffic and noise and dogs barking right nearby, and for that you have to repeat a lot and Robert Rodriguez didn't do that. Smart, smart, smart, you better have smarts also. Werner Herzog united-states smart dog I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around. Werner Herzog too-much At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary. Werner Herzog vapid pbs roaches Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote. Werner Herzog commentary courses voice I'm not a one-trick horse. Werner Herzog tricks horse There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things. Werner Herzog unusual-things media done Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever. Werner Herzog actors done hurt I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane. Werner Herzog statistics actors hurt
