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 More Quotes by Werner Herzog More Quotes From Werner Herzog I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema. Werner Herzog cinema film powerful I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago. Werner Herzog years moving thinking I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity. Werner Herzog intuition creativity thinking Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. Werner Herzog boat mountain men 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 passion opposites art 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 tourism feet doe Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence. Werner Herzog scream silence people Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue. Werner Herzog ocean land men Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant. Werner Herzog pleasant netflix way May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it. Werner Herzog watches television world You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking. Werner Herzog prudent drones tools We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word “chaos” means “gaping void” or “yawning emptiness.” The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema. Werner Herzog yawning mean art I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing. Werner Herzog complete-freedom netflix Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice. Werner Herzog criminals justice people 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 mind country art Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano. Werner Herzog volcanoes war fall Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. Werner Herzog scholar film art I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum. Werner Herzog lunatic-asylums asylums should I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night. Werner Herzog careers steps night 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 rocks boards actors
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