312 Quotes by Werner Herzog

Friendship is possible with mice.

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it’s not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it’s not your fault.

I’m not a journalist; I’m a poet.

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I’m good at that.

I never planned my career in steps. It’s all coming at me like burglars in the night.

I prefer to be alive, so I’m cautious about taking risks.

If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn’t matter whether you’re bold or cowardly, or whether you’re stupid or intelligent. Doesn’t get you anywhere.

I’m not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.

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.