Werner Herzog Quotes
9 quotations by Werner Herzog
![]() | You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. | ![]() |
![]() | There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. | ![]() |
![]() | Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. | ![]() |
![]() | Strangely enough, I've always believed that my stories were mainstream stories; the films are narrated in a way that you never have a boring moment. | ![]() |
![]() | Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that. | ![]() |
![]() | I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that! | ![]() |
![]() | I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. | ![]() |
![]() | I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. | ![]() |
![]() | Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. | ![]() |