Quote #41
Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
More from Werner Herzog
- For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
- Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
- I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
- Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievemen…
- I do not want to go into general rules of what a filmmaker should do and how he should approach his work... I am not Moses on the mountain …
- Actually, for some time now I have given some thought to opening a film school. But if I did start one up you would only be allowed to fill…
- I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
- Often he was a joy, and you know, he was one of the few people I ever learned anything from.