312 Quotes by Werner Herzog

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.

Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species – including man – crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

Truth itself wanders through the forests.

I’m not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming – I’ve always been a man of the theaters.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear – my “documentaries” were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

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.

If you don’t read, you will never be a filmmaker.

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.

I shouldn’t make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.