Werner Herzog Quotes

"I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews."
-Werner Herzog

"Strangely enough, I've always believed that my stories were mainstream stories; the films are narrated in a way that you never have a boring moment."
-Werner Herzog

"Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are."
-Werner Herzog

"I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!"
-Werner Herzog

"Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life."
-Werner Herzog

"Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that."
-Werner Herzog

"I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard."
-Werner Herzog

"I'm old-fashioned; I'm a man of celluloid. I think it still has a depth and a precision that you do not have in the digital domain, and the digital domain has some disadvantages. When you shoot something and record it with a digital camera, you have an instant access to it - you don't have to wait for the dailies."
-Werner Herzog