Werner Herzog

“The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.”

“I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.”

“I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.”

“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.”

“Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”

“I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!”

“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”

“If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.”

“I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.”

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

“I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.”

“I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.”

“Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.”

“I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.”

“I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.”

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

“Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.”