Werner Herzog: Doing

Werner Herzog is German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big colour photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer.”

Werner Herzog

Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
Herzog on Herzog (2002)

Love , Books , Photo , Thinking

“We comprehend… that nuclear power is a real danger for mankind, that over-crowding of the planet is the greatest danger of all. We have understood that the destruction of the environment is another enormous danger. But I truly believe that the lack of adequate imagery is a danger of the same magnitude. It is as serious a defect as being without memory. What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.”

Werner Herzog

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

Memory

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

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

“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.”

Werner Herzog

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

Understanding , Thinking

“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.”

Werner Herzog

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

Thinking , Happiness

“Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix… If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.”

Werner Herzog

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

Imagination