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Most of Hitler's henchmen were not demons. They were overly obedient petty bourgeois who had mutated into murderers. — Rudolph Herzog

But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view. — Arthur Herzog

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters. — Werner Herzog

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

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school. — 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

For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes. — Whitey Herzog

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else. — Whitey Herzog

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness. — Arthur Herzog

There is never an excuse not to finish a film. — Werner Herzog

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this. — Werner Herzog

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

I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder. — Werner Herzog

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies. — Werner Herzog

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum. — Werner Herzog

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog. — Whitey Herzog

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

I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them. — 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'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. — Werner Herzog

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

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it. — Whitey Herzog

I love nature, but against my better judgment. — Werner Herzog

I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot. — Werner Herzog

If you don't have a deal in two days, you won't have a deal in two years — Werner Herzog

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide. — Werner Herzog

Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue. — Werner Herzog

I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together. — Werner Herzog

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land. — Werner Herzog

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed. — Whitey Herzog

'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel. — Maurice Herzog

Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set, — Werner Herzog

At the market I ate a piece of a grilled monkey - it looked like a naked child. — Werner Herzog

Education is not neutral; it is political to the core. — William R. Herzog II

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

Vesco was always on the trail in search of money. — Arthur Herzog

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. — Werner Herzog

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor. — 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

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

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. — Werner Herzog

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

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

Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by. — Dan Gilroy

The chicken's still dancing
the chicken won't stop — Sarah Kane

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office. — Werner Herzog

I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. — Werner Herzog

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights. — Whitey Herzog

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it! — Werner Herzog

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve. — Brad Herzog

Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be. — Arthur Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men. — Maurice Herzog

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it. — Arthur Herzog

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

Tourism is a mortal sin. — Werner Herzog

Tillie Olsen. James Joyce. Robert Stone. I must have read Updike's Rabbit, Run five times and Bellow's Herzog — Pamela Paul

I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog. — Werner Herzog

Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. — Werner Herzog

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

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

Facts do not constitute truth, — Werner Herzog

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. — 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 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

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

Herzog abandoned this theme with characteristic abruptness — Saul Bellow

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound. — Brad Herzog

Regarding school vs. homeschool
If it works, send them there!
If it doesn't, don't import it. — Joyce 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

But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it. — Arthur 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

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. — Werner Herzog

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

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. — Werner Herzog

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog. — Abel Ferrara

If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic. — Whitey Herzog

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice. — Werner Herzog

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations. — Werner Herzog

If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs. — Whitey Herzog

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth. — Werner Herzog

I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog. — Saul Bellow

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination. — Werner Herzog

Scientists have reported that elephants grieve their dead, monkeys perceive injustice and cockatoos like to dance to the music of the Backstreet Boys. — Hal Herzog

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

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

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

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

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

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses. — Arthur Herzog

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