“Often he was a joy, and you know, he was one of the few people I ever learned anything from.”
Herzog on Herzog (2002), On Klaus Kinski
Werner Herzog: 53 citations0 J'aime
Werner Herzog: Citations en anglais
Burden of Dreams (1982)
Contexte: Taking a close look at what is around us, there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle, we in comparison to that enormous articulation, we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel, a cheap novel. And we have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication, overwhelming growth, and overwhelming lack of order. Even the stars up here in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no harmony as we have conceived it. But when I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it, I love it, I love it very much, but I love it against my better judgment.
Minnesota declaration (1999)
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
Contexte: Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect.
Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
Source: Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
Herzog on Herzog (2002), On Klaus Kinski
“I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.”
Said while making Fitzcarraldo
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)
Minnesota declaration (1999)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)
