312 Quotes by Werner Herzog

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

I'm the last one who would do self-analysis.

Many of my films have not been easy work,

What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.

Only 30 minutes from where I live, there is a completely hidden and forgotten archive. Nobody even knows that this exists here.

The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea]. For example, we wanted to film at a certain place and there happened to be a building under construction and it didn't look as fancy as the other buildings, so they wanted us to shoot where everything looked finished and made a good impression of the cityscape.

I have my doubts about his attitude toward wild nature and that he did anything to help the bears, ... Wild nature is simply wild, and we have to respect that. He keeps repeating to the bears 'I love you,' and I think that is wrong. You should respect the distance.

I have never left my culture. It doesn't matter whether I film with Australian aborigines or in Antarctica.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.