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

- Werner Herzog

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.

- Werner Herzog

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

- Werner Herzog

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

- Werner Herzog

I'm not an activist.

- Werner Herzog

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

- Werner Herzog

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

- Werner Herzog

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.

- Werner Herzog

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

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.

- Werner Herzog

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

- Werner Herzog

The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.

- 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.

- Werner Herzog

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

- Werner Herzog

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

- Werner Herzog

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

- Werner Herzog

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.

- Werner Herzog

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

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

- Werner Herzog

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

- Werner Herzog