When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.

Werner Herzog

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Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative. by Werner Herzog

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

just-do-it initiative film

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony,... by Werner Herzog

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

common believe directors

I love nature but against my better judgment. by Werner Herzog

I love nature but against my better judgment.

nature-love judgment

Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.

iceland netflix korea

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

filmmaking filmmaker ifs

Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.

stupidity eye real

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

kung-fu film intellectual

In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I... by Werner Herzog

In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.

fluffy wife husband

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms,... by Werner Herzog

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

illumination mistake facts

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of cha... by Werner Herzog

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

ice ocean civilization

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

would-be dream want

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

half would-be thinking

Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.

environmental climate community

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It... by Werner Herzog

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

ocean dream sleep

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. by Werner Herzog

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

nature feet world

If the part is really good of course I would like to do it. by Werner Herzog

If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devi... by Werner Herzog

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

hell devil film

You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.

dating radio years

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.

apples real tree

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. by Werner Herzog

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.

villain would-be thinking