“I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.” ThinkingShouldStatesCapacityKillingExceptionWarfare Author:Werner Herzog
“I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to be all the time stoned and on weed. It didn't look right and it doesn't look right today either and the damage drugs have done to civilizations are too enormous. And besides, I don't need any drug to step out of myself. I don't want them and I do not need them.” ThinkingWantNeedsLooksDoneTodayCultureMistakeStepsCivilizationDrugEnormousDamageWeedHippie Author:Werner Herzog
“I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.” PeopleThinkingCountryDreamReadingOne ThingFairsRootsLet MeEnormousCinemaCollectivesMagicianVegasLas VegasVulgarity Author:Werner Herzog
“I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.” ThinkingSelfPsychologyCenturyMajorsReflectionCatastropheTwentieth CenturySelf Reflection Author:Werner Herzog
“I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.” IfsThinkingHappensCreativityFantasyWorstIntuitionFilmmaking Author:Werner Herzog
“I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.” ThinkingWould BeVillainBond MovieJames Bond Movie Author:Werner Herzog
“I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.” ThinkingWould BeLastsHalfWeakVillainDozenConvincingBond MovieJames Bond Movie Author:Werner Herzog
“I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.” PeopleThinkingYearsStatesMovingUnitedUnited StatesHappenedEventsConsequenceYears AgoTiny Author:Werner Herzog
“North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.” ThinkingWould BeRevolutionConnectedMythExceptionSoberKoreaNorth KoreaVolcanoes Author:Werner Herzog
“When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility when you're trespassing. I think you haven't seen a film on volcanoes like that before. It's not National Geographic. It is wildly imaginative and very poetic and has a sense of awe that you normally do not see in films.” ThinkingFilmSpeakCommonResponsibilityHavensCommon SenseArtisticAwePoeticImaginativePrudentVolcanoesSense Of ResponsibilityNational GeographicTrespassing Author:Werner Herzog
“[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes. I can edit almost as fast as I'm thinking, editing with celluloid means always searching for this little reel of film, and number it, and scribble on it with some sort of pens, and gluing it together, and working on a flatbed. It's much, much slower.” ThinkingMeanLittlesI CanTogetherFilmNumbersRevolutionRight NowFasterDigitalPensEditingEditsVolcanoesDoing RightScribblesCelluloidDigital Revolution Author:Werner Herzog
“Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he wrote a book about it and gave all the details of how he spent the money, even making a 35mm celluloid feature film was possible, at least for Rodriguez.” ThinkingLongBookFilmHoursHalfDetailsFeaturesHalf HoursCelluloid Author:Werner Herzog
“I do not want to have a cell phone. I do not want it for cultural reasons. I do not want to be available all the time. I want to have time to think and to touch somebody, and have a meal across my kitchen table without a cell phone, being constantly on tweets.” ThinkingReasonKitchenTweetCell PhoneTime To Think Author:Werner Herzog
“If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.” IfsThinkingBookBigsFilmSubjectsColorHealthySafeMagazinesThings To DoGossipColumnsVulgarityLove FilmsVulgarity Is Author:Werner Herzog
“People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.” PeopleThinkingWellsHateRespectI HateMurderMutualLove HateMutual RespectHate HimLove Hate RelationshipLove And Hate RelationshipI Hate Him Author:Werner Herzog
“I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.” ThinkingAbleIronyDefects Author:Werner Herzog
“I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.” ThinkingMadeCareGoalTermMinesStrangeNotionWho Cares Author:Werner Herzog
“Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.” ThinkingDoeFilmCertainDegreesAthleteKneesCinemaAbstractAcademicThighs Author:Werner Herzog
“I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.” ThinkingPainFightingCoursesGrowingTreeSurvivalBirdMiseryJungleEroticChokeRottingObscenityAsphyxiation Author:Werner Herzog
“The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.” ThinkingLooksPainTreeBirdMurderHarmonyMiseryCollectivesOverwhelming Author:Werner Herzog
“I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.” ThinkingHumansAgeLiteratureConditionsHuman ConditionQuests Author:Werner Herzog
“I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.” ThinkingShouldWarClassHolyYogaHoly War Author:Werner Herzog
