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" I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent. "

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" Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. "

Werner Herzog

Offended

Things

Human

" I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks. "

" I'm the last one who would do self-analysis. "

" I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. "

" I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them. "

" Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision. "

" I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films. "

" I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. "

" I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. "

" Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. "

Werner Herzog

Deep

Ice

" I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that! "

" I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them. "

" Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart. "

" Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. "

" 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. "

" Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one. "

" I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. "

" I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground. "

" I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters. "

" If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere. "

" Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. "

" I'm not an activist. "

Werner Herzog

Activist

" I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. "

" I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk. "

" I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations. "

Werner Herzog

Conversations

Interviewer

" There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. "

Werner Herzog

Same

Got

" I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time. "

" Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. "

" I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. "

" Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. "