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)

“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)

“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)

“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)

“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)