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Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one. — Werner Herzog

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. — Werner Herzog

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. — Werner Herzog

It is only through writing that I become myself — Werner Herzog

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it. — Werner Herzog

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. — Werner Herzog

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs. — Werner Herzog

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. — Werner Herzog

Facts do not constitute truth, — Werner Herzog

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog. — Philippe Petit

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise. — Werner Herzog

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

I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time. — Werner Herzog

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. — Werner Herzog

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

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings. — Werner Herzog

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man. — Werner Herzog

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it. — Werner Herzog

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that! — Werner Herzog

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. — Werner Herzog

South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K. — Richard Stanley

One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers. — Werner Herzog

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment. — Werner Herzog

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. — Werner Herzog

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals. — 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

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

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. — Werner Herzog

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently. — Werner Herzog

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge. — Werner Herzog