312 Quotes by Werner Herzog

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

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot

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

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

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

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on the wrong train, and did I not learn from the conductor that the train would not stop at the next station, either, a hundred kilometers away, and did he not also admit to me, whispering with his hand shielding his mouth, that the train would not stop again at all?