10 great werner herzog quotes
- What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
- Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
- Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
- Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
- People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other’s murder.
- Facts do not convey truth. That’s a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
- In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
- I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.
- May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
- There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
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