Werner Herzog: Cinema

Werner Herzog is German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director. Explore interesting quotes on cinema.

Werner Herzog: 106 quotes7 likes

“Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.”

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

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

Minnesota declaration (1999)

“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)

“By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verité is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.”

Minnesota declaration (1999)

“Cinema Verité confounds fact and truth, and thus plows only stones. And yet, facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.”

Minnesota declaration (1999)