“I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.” ActorsLeadershipAnimalDirectLandscape Author:Werner Herzog
“There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.” WayWritingTogetherFilmActorsStuffDirectOrganizationFinanceSubstanceCinemaProseExpress Yourself Author:Werner Herzog
“With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.” MotivationActorsConversationBackgrounds Author:Werner Herzog
“I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.” MadeFilmActorsSidesHurtExtrasStatisticsSane Author:Werner Herzog
“My crew [on "Fitzcarraldo" filming] actually said, "We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship]," and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.” IfsShouldSaidActorsRocksDangerousShipsBoardsShoreCrewCinematographers Author:Werner Herzog
“It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of idea out in the media that I am a daredevil and that I risk the lives of everyone around me, but nobody ever gets hurt on my shoot. Some crew members sometimes, but the actors are OK.” KindLongIdeasCountrySometimesActorsHurtSituationRiskMediaMembersLong TimeVariousCrewDaredevil Author:Werner Herzog
“[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.” KindDoneFilmActorsActingStrangeHugeMountainMythologyFeaturesUnusualHypnosisSteamboats Author:Werner Herzog
“Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.” DoneFilmActorsHurtExtrasPrudent Author:Werner Herzog
“Of course there's a value in a storyboard if you do a big - let's say an action movie and actors have to move and act in front of a green screen because entire backgrounds exploding and cars flying through there have to be created separately, and in this case you better make sure the actors are precisely placed and the background action is moving in a certain moment, for this type of film you would need a storyboard.” IfsNeedsMomentsBigsActionFilmMovingCertainValuesCoursesActorsCasesCarFrontsTypeGreenScreensFlyingBackgroundsAction MovieMoving InExploding Author:Werner Herzog
“What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.” KindFacesActorsSkinsCamerasDialogueShootingResolution Author:Werner Herzog
“If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.” IfsKnowsActorsDifficultKnow HowMilkCows Author:Werner Herzog
