Werner Herzog Quotes

Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'

I don't direct movies for a living.

We take safety very, very seriously on every film I make, and that's why I've never had a serious accident or anybody killed when I make a picture.

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two-Bit Waltz.'

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know.

I've directed independent film.

I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.

I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.

When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies.

I would love to work with Christopher Nolan, 100 percent.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

Padam Kumar is a technically sound director, very contemporary.

I would like to be an actor, but I really would like to be a director of feature films. That's what I want to be when I grow up. I want to make films.

When I started working as a writer-director, that's when he became Paul Thomas Anderson and I became Paul W.S. Anderson. Neither of us can write and direct an American movie under the name Paul Anderson.

I wonder if Louis Ferreira would be interested in directing.

I would love to work with Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Omar Epps, Martin Scorsese, Josh Mond, Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell, just to name a few. Those guys are absolutely brilliant at what they do.

Aditya Chopra is my mentor and one of my favorite directors.