Werner Herzog Quotes

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

Film and art are close together.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

Film has always been where my heart is.

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

I love the medium of film.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

Cinema brings together people from all walks of life. It connects everybody. It's an art in motion.

For me, cinema is happiness.

Cinema is not just a side show - it is something which is much deeper than that. It is a form of art which needs to be respected.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

Cinema is incredibly concise.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.