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Werner Herzog

Geburtstag: 5. September 1942

Werner Herzog ist ein deutscher Regisseur, Produzent, Schauspieler und Schriftsteller. Er zählt zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern des „Neuen Deutschen Films“ und des internationalen Autorenfilms. Die Zeitschrift Time rechnete ihn 2009 zu den hundert einflussreichsten Personen der Welt.

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„Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle“

— Werner Herzog

Über Gott

„In mir wühlte eine Verlassenheit, wie Termiten in einem gefallenen Baumstamm.“

— Werner Herzog
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo

„Ein jüngerer, intelligent aussehender Mann mit langem Haar fragte mich, ob Filmen, bzw. Gefilmtwerden, Schaden anrichten könne, ob es eine Person vernichten könne. In meinem Herzen war die Antwort ja, aber ich sagte nein.“

— Werner Herzog
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo

Über Männer

„Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous.“

— Werner Herzog
Context: Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect.

„What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.“

— Werner Herzog

„Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.“

— Werner Herzog

„Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.“

— Werner Herzog

„Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.“

— Werner Herzog

„Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.“

— 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 colour photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.“

— 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.“

— Werner Herzog

„In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.“

— Werner Herzog
Context: Taking a close look at what is around us, there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle, we in comparison to that enormous articulation, we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel, a cheap novel. And we have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication, overwhelming growth, and overwhelming lack of order. Even the stars up here in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no harmony as we have conceived it. But when I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it, I love it, I love it very much, but I love it against my better judgment.