Skip to main content

When I say tourism is sin and...

When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

If I had to climb into hell a...

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

Film is not the art of schola...

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

I try to be after something t...

I try to be after something that is deeply reverberating inside of our souls, some deep echo from - even from prehistory. What makes us humans? How do we communicate? Where are we going at this moment? Something for an audience where they can step outside of themselves, where they can be almost like in ecstasy of truth, some sort of deep illumination. And that's what I'm trying in documentaries and in feature films.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

I'm not into the culture of c...

I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

Never wallow in your troubles...

Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

For example, the face of Nico...

For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can find anywhere around in the world. There's no imperfections, and yet I don't need to know every single pore in her face.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

English is a really wonderful...

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

May I propose a Herzog dictum...

May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

Money doesn't make films. You...

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

I'm trying to find these rare...

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

Facts do not convey truth. Th...

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

You have to be very prudent w...

You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

"Jack Reacher" was easy becau...

"Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

I have been in lots of very i...

I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

I do not want to have a cell ...

I do not want to have a cell phone. I do not want it for cultural reasons. I do not want to be available all the time. I want to have time to think and to touch somebody, and have a meal across my kitchen table without a cell phone, being constantly on tweets.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

While you are walking you wou...

While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

I never planned my career in ...

I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

There are certainly laws and ...

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

I never have searched for a s...

I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

Werner Herzog 181 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....