Werner Herzog Quotes

• Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in Planets, Exist

• I think 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

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• I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can’t get rid of them. I did not invite them.

  Werner Herzog

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• I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It’s a dream of mine to go there, but it’s such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.

  Werner Herzog

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Northern, Prudent

• Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It’s an ego trip, and I’m not on an ego trip. I don’t have ambitions – I have a vision.

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in Trip, Ego

• 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.

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in Pyramids, Disciplined

• The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in Universe, Looking

• The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in Presence, Indifferent

• I’m the last one who would do self-analysis.

  Werner Herzog

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• I’m simply not afraid. It’s not in my dictionary of behaviour.

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in Dictionary, Afraid

• I’m politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in Politically, Political

• I’m not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in Eager, Films

• I’m not an interviewer. I have conversations.

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in Conversations

• I’m a very professional man. I’m not out for the experience of adventure.

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in Adventure, Professional

• I’m not a journalist; I’m a poet.

  Werner Herzog

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• I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

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  Tags in Underwear, luggage

• I work very fast and steadily, and I don’t hardly ever notice that I’m working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

  Charles Dickens

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  Tags in Steadily, Notice

• 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.

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in Carpet, Events

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

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in See, Against

• I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.

  Werner Herzog

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  Tags in Internet, Pretending

Werner Herzog (50)

Birth:	5th September, 1942
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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