Werner Herzog

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#monsters #ocean #sleep #dreams

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#inspirational

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#film #movies #passion #scholars #scholarship

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. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#existentialism

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. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#love #respect #love

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

#film #look #only #scholars #see

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

— Werner Herzog

#comes #dysfunctional #good #hostile #i

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

— Werner Herzog

#cope #enough #fast #film #hard

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

— Werner Herzog

#facts #inherent #makes #power #seem

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#getting #i #nights #over #reviews