312 Quotes by Werner Herzog

I see planets that don’t exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.

A perfect morning; in perfect harmony with myself I’m walking briskly uphill... For once I didn’t notice that I was walking, all the way up to the mountaintop forest I was absorbed in deep thought. Perfect clarity and freshness in the air, up further there’s some snow. The tangerines make me completely euphoric.

I work very fast and steadily, and I don’t hardly ever notice that I’m working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it.

I’m a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.

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

Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal – be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever – human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur – like creation – in grandiose splendor.