Werner Herzog Quotes
Top 98 wise famous quotes and sayings by Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Werner Herzog on Wise Famous Quotes.
![Werner Herzog quotes: I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films. Werner Herzog quotes: I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1992625.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-88417.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. Werner Herzog quotes: We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-37867.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. Werner Herzog quotes: I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1843521.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk. Werner Herzog quotes: I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1626859.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this. Werner Herzog quotes: With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1507244.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-274635.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read ... if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-550886.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1211585.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. Werner Herzog quotes: I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1567282.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1585881.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry. Werner Herzog quotes: My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1593760.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1556555.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office. Werner Herzog quotes: I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1350333.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. Werner Herzog quotes: I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1721174.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: In the evening I finished reading a book, and because I was feeling so alone, I buried the book on the edge of the forest with a borrowed spade. Werner Herzog quotes: In the evening I finished reading a book, and because I was feeling so alone, I buried the book on the edge of the forest with a borrowed spade.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-2144481.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia. Werner Herzog quotes: In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-2116909.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties. Werner Herzog quotes: I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-2106148.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. Werner Herzog quotes: What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1963335.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it. Werner Herzog quotes: May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1941684.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere. Werner Herzog quotes: The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1807849.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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. Werner Herzog quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1658116.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-268056.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-464059.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-376175.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-333787.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that! Werner Herzog quotes: I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-278011.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-236897.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment. Werner Herzog quotes: I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-229799.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema. Werner Herzog quotes: I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-130208.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-53538.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge. Werner Herzog quotes: Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-30841.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-854892.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. Werner Herzog quotes: Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-891212.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-1219156.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: 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 quotes: Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-810541.jpg)
![Werner Herzog quotes: Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice. Werner Herzog quotes: Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/werner-herzog-quotes-709675.jpg)
Top 98 wise famous quotes and sayings by Werner Herzog
Discover top inspirational quotes from Werner Herzog on Wise Famous Quotes.