Werner Herzog Quotes

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting to make movies.

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything, and there's a maxim about film being a visual medium, and so you need to make, in a sense, a silent movie and layer on dialogue.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.

I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'

Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know.

I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

I want people to see my movies.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.

When you do a freeze frame, you have the opportunity to find the exact shot that you want - no guessing.

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.