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" If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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 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 should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. "

" I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. "

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

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

" I'm not an activist. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge. "

" I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "