Poll: Werner Herzog Quotes - Part 1

Results of 270 votes:

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   Fitzcarraldo (1982)

    

   Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
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   Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

    

   Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
3. 3.
   

   Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski in My Best Fiend (1999)

    

   (on Klaus Kinski) People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
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   Patrick Stewart, James Corden, Anna Faris, and T.J. Miller in The Emoji Movie (2017)

    

   (on Emojis) Let them keep smiling. I don't care.
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   Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski in My Best Fiend (1999)

    

   Every gray hair on my head I call Kinski.
6. 6.
   

   Stroszek (1977)

    

   You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than a…
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   Cobra Verde (1987)

    

   Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.
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   Timothy Treadwell in Grizzly Man (2005)

    

   In all the faces of all the bears Treadwell ever filmed, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference in nature. To me, there is no such thing as the sec…
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   Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)

    

   Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.
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    Klaus Kinski and King Ampaw in Cobra Verde (1987)

     

    Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop …
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    Lessons of Darkness (1992)

     

    We comprehend... that nuclear power is a real danger for mankind, that over-crowding of the planet is the greatest danger of all. We have understood that the destruction of the environment is another …
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    #6

     

    Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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    Last Words (1968)

     

    If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
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    Heart of Glass (1976)

     

    Tourism is sin, and walking on foot virtue.
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    Fitzcarraldo (1982)

     

    (about the jungle) The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.
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    "Lone Ranger, The" Clayton Moore 1955 Warner Bros.

     

    I kept wondering: Why is it that human beings put on masks or feathers to conceal their identity? And why do they saddle horses and feel the urge to chase the bad guy? And why is it that certain speci…
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    Into the Inferno (2016)

     

    Nothing I have witnessed, from lava to crustacean, assailed me liked the caked debris haunting that small plastic soap hammock in the smaller of the bathrooms. Nausea is not a sufficient word.
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    Werner Herzog in Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

     

    Are we today the crocodiles who look back into the abyss of time when we see the paintings of Chauvet cave?