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“I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.”

Said while making Fitzcarraldo
Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.”

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.”

Minnesota declaration (1999)

“If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!”

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

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

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“Filmmakers of Cinema Verité resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts.”

Minnesota declaration (1999)

“It is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are, and we have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.”

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“Each year at springtime scores of people on snowmobiles crash through the melting ice on the lakes of Minnesota and drown. Pressure is mounting on the new governor to pass a protective law. He, the former wrestler and bodyguard, has the only sage answer to this: "You can´t legislate stupidity."”

Minnesota declaration (1999)

“Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.”

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“If you switch on television it's just ridiculous and its destructive. It kills us. And talk shows will kill us. They kill our language. So we have to declare holy war against what we see every single day on television. Commercials and — I think there should be real war against commercials, real war against talk shows, real war against "Bonanza" and "Rawhide", or all these things.”

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

“Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.”

Minnesota declaration (1999)

“Together, I said, we shall boil fire and stop fish.”

To Lotte Eisner in Paris after walking from Munich to meet her, Of Walking in Ice ISBN 978-0-9796121-0-7.

“To me, adventure is a concept that applies only to those men and women of earlier historical times, like the mediaeval knights who travelled into the unknown. The concept has degenerated constantly since then… I absolutely loathe adventurers, and I particularly hate this old pseudo-adventurism where the mountain climb becomes about confronting the extremes of humanity.”

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] … an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.”

Conversation with Paul Holdengräber, in “Was the 20th Century a Mistake?”, The Richard B. Saloman Distinguished Lectures & LIVE from the NYPL, Celeste Bartos Forum, New York (2007) http://www.nypl.org/events/program/2009/05/20/werner-herzog-conversation-paul-holdengräber-was-20th-century-mistake

“That man is a head taller than me. That may change.”

"Don Lope de Aguirre" in Aguirre: The Wrath of God [Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes] (1972)

“I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.”

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.”

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.”

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.”

Minnesota declaration (1999)