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" 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. "

Werner Herzog

Mood

Insecurity

Financial

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" I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. "

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

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

Werner Herzog

Conversations

Interviewer

" Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that. "

" I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office. "

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

" 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. "

" I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. "

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

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

Werner Herzog

Deep

Ice

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

" The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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