312 Quotes by Werner Herzog

We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.

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

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

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

Tourism is a mortal sin.

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

Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.

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

If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.