Quotes from Werner Herzog

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

Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.

I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.

Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.

I love nature but against my better judgment.

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

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

I don't want to travel.

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

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

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

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

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

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

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