I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done. Werner Herzog More Quotes by Werner Herzog More Quotes From Werner Herzog My crew [on "Fitzcarraldo" filming] actually said, "We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship]," and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own. Werner Herzog rocksboardsactors English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it Werner Herzog urgeslanguagewonderful You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. Werner Herzog documentariesbearsmind For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can find anywhere around in the world. There's no imperfections, and yet I don't need to know every single pore in her face. Werner Herzog imperfectionqueensbeautiful There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could speak on camera. I never got an answer. But what was interesting was the people who were responsible for us, our "guards," it took them two days to figure out how I should address him. "President? No, you can't because there's a president for eternity." And it was a time when his status was still in flux. Only a few months later there was this party congress which assigned an official title to him, but that was after we did our film. Werner Herzog volcanoespartytwo One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies. Werner Herzog poeticcinemamade I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. Werner Herzog creatingeditingwriting I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. Werner Herzog indifferenceunderstandingmercy 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 lookswayart People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder. Werner Herzog respecthatethinking Facts do not constitute truth. Werner Herzog facts 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 milkcowsactors I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. Werner Herzog toothbrushesunderwearmaps You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school. Werner Herzog guatemalacanadaschool Public life is constantly aware of the volcano. Werner Herzog public-lifevolcanoeslife-is I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after. Werner Herzog realityfactsway We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field. Werner Herzog cowsfieldswould-be Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano. Werner Herzog volcanoespropagandakorea I try to be after something that is deeply reverberating inside of our souls, some deep echo from - even from prehistory. What makes us humans? How do we communicate? Where are we going at this moment? Something for an audience where they can step outside of themselves, where they can be almost like in ecstasy of truth, some sort of deep illumination. And that's what I'm trying in documentaries and in feature films. Werner Herzog filmsoultrying If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker. Werner Herzog filmmakermotivationalinspirational
