Werner Herzog Quotes on Movies (5 Quotes)

It's not that I do not care about it. I've seen it very often in my career. For example, 'Aguirre The Wrath of God' was refused by the Cannes Film Festival and in the German press it was so badly reviewed that you had the feeling it was the worst film of the decade and it endured the test of time. I'm very very content with 'Grizzly Man,' because I think it was pretty much the best reviewed film of the year and it had lots of audiences that loved the film and what can you ask more I'm totally pleased and totally content with what I have done and with the reception of the film.

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

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.

ecstatic truth. I've always tried to strive for a much deeper truth in the images, in cinema, in storytelling, on a screen, so whether I've achieved it or not remains to be seen. . . . There are short fleeting moments when I know that I have achieved it.

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.