Quote #44

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 who proclaims the rules of procedure and what is sin and what is virtue.

More from Werner Herzog

  1. I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
  2. I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
  3. 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.
  4. I have the impression that the images that surround us today are worn out, they are abused and useless and exhausted. They are limping and …
  5. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
  6. I invite any sort of myths because I like the stooges and doppelgangers and doubles out there. I feel protected behind all these things. Le…
  7. I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen- I'm good at that!
  8. Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

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