Werner Herzog quotes

" It was worthwhile for what you see on the screen. Who cares if every grey hair on my head I call 'Kinski'? " # Age and Aging # Television # 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. " # Cinema # Scholars and Scholarship # Arts and Artists

" Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal. " # Love # Fear # Animals

" Together, I said, we shall boil fire and stop fish. " # Fishing

" We comprehend... that nuclear power is a real danger for mankind, that over-crowding of the planet is the greatest danger of all. We have understood that the destruction of the environment is another enormous danger. But I truly believe that the lack of adequate imagery is a danger of the same magnitude. It is as serious a defect as being without memory. What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs. " # Psychoanalysis # Memory # Arts and Artists

" 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 dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. When I look at the postcards in tourist shops and the images and advertisements that surround us in magazines, or I turn on the television, or if I walk into a travel agency and see those huge posters with that same tedious and rickety image of the Grand Canyon on them, I truly feel there is something dangerous emerging here. The biggest danger, in my opinion, is television because to a certain degree it ruins our vision and makes us very sad and lonesome. Our grandchildren will blame us for not having tossed hand-grenades into TV stations because of commercials. Television kills our imagination and what we end up with are worn out images because of the inability of too many people to seek out fresh ones. " # Travel and Tourism # Advertising # Critics and Criticism

" 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. " # Image # Memory # Civilization

" That man is a head taller than me. That may change. " # Change

" You are all wrong. " # Wrong

" I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder. " # Murder # Humor # Chaos