Werner Herzog Quotes About Film

• Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

  Werner Herzog

  Film, Initiative, Just Do It

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

  Werner Herzog

  Intellectual, Film, Kung Fu

  "Herzog on Herzog: Conversations with Paul Cronin". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

• I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

  Werner Herzog

  Devil, Film, Hell

• While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Passion, Opposites

  "On Filmmaking: Werner Herzog". www.rowthree.com. November 15, 2008.

• I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

  Werner Herzog

  Powerful, Cinema, Film

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Joshua Oppenheimer" by Patrick Brzeski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 2, 2013.

• You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

  Werner Herzog

  Mind, Documentaries, Bears

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 25, 2009.

• If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

  Werner Herzog

  Devil, Film, Hell

• Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Film, Scholar

• When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.

  Werner Herzog

  Feet, Tourism, Doe

  Fuente: www.slate.com

• You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Looks, Way

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

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Art, Mind

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

• Al universo le importamos un bledo. Lo digo muy claramente en la película ["Into the Inferno"]: nuestro planeta es "indiferente a las cucarachas escurridizas, a los reptiles retrasados y a los humanos insípidos por igual".

  Werner Herzog

  Vapid, Roaches, Reptiles

  Fuente: www.rogerebert.com

• I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

  Werner Herzog

  Film, Enough, Hard

• Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.

  Werner Herzog

  Grandchildren, Punishment, Achievement

• 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 color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

  Werner Herzog

  Book, Thinking, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.

  Werner Herzog

  Feet, Cooking, Alternatives

• at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again

  Werner Herzog

  Sea, World, Firsts

• There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

  Werner Herzog

  Law, Substance, Elements

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.

  Werner Herzog

  Soul, Mind, Desert

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Paul Cronin, 2002.

• There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

  Werner Herzog

  Insecurity, Noir, Financial

  "Courting Disaster: Werner Herzog". Interview with Darrell Hartman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2009.

• It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave ["La Soufrière"].

  Werner Herzog

  Islands, Volcanoes, Years

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

• The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Buttons, Netflix

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

• When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility when you're trespassing. I think you haven't seen a film on volcanoes like that before. It's not National Geographic. It is wildly imaginative and very poetic and has a sense of awe that you normally do not see in films.

  Werner Herzog

  Responsibility, Thinking, Volcanoes

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.

  Werner Herzog

  Matter, Digital, Film

  Fuente: collider.com

• By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.

  Werner Herzog

  Editing, Cameras, Narrative

  Fuente: collider.com

También te puede gustar:

Klaus Kinski

Timothy Treadwell

Wim Wenders

Jai Courtney

David Lynch

Gertrude Bell

Ingmar Bergman