Werner Herzog Quotes

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

I look for stories everywhere.

The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and shaping them in the editing into a narrative that will have appeal and be engaging - is a great, great thrill.

Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the move, became second nature.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

When you can see kids smiling, that's one of the best things. That's why I did 'Narnia.'

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.