Poll: Werner Herzog Quotes - Part 2

Results of 199 votes:

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   Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

    

   My ideas are like uninvited guests. They don't knock on the door; they climb in through the windows like burglars who show up in the middle of the night and make a racket in the kitchen as they raid t…
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   Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

    

   The kinds of landscape I try to find in my films...exist only in our dreams. For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally in…
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   Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

    

   Is there such a thing as insanity in a penguin?
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   Werner Herzog in Jack Reacher (2012)

    

   We have to have our dark corners and the unexplained. We will become uninhabitable in a way an apartment will become uninhabitable if you illuminate every single dark corner.
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   Werner Herzog in Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

    

   You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumor.
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   Klaus Kinski in Fitzcarraldo (1982)

    

   I am a Conquistador of the Useless.
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   Nicolas Cage, Xzibit, Lucius Baston, and Tim Bellow in The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)

    

   I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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   Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

    

   Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small contin…
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   Fata Morgana (1971)

    

   We ought to be grateful that the universe out there knows no smile.
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    Johnny Carson in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)

     

    Talk shows will kill us, they kill our language. So we have to declare holy war against what we see every single day on television [...] I think there should be real war against commercials, real war …
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    Werner Herzog in Into the Abyss (2011)

     

    Tell me about an encounter with a squirrel.
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    Lessons of Darkness (1992)

     

    The oil is treacherous because it reflects the sky. The oil is trying to disguise itself as water.
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    The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)

     

    Money has always had certain explicit qualities: it’s stupid and cowardly, slow and unimaginative. The circumstances of funding never just appear; you have to create them yourself, then manipulate the…
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    Werner Herzog in Burden of Dreams (1982)

     

    In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
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    Werner Herzog in Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

     

    [It] feels sad that the South Pole or Mount Everest were not left in peace in their dignity. It may be a futile wish to keep a few white spots on our maps but human adventure in its original sense los…
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    Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

     

    McMurdo has climate-controlled housing facilities, its own radio station, a bowling alley, and abominations such as an aerobic studio and yoga classes... it even has an ATM machine. For all these reas…
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    Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)

     

    Mother Nature doesn't call, doesn't speak to you, although a glacier eventually farts. And don't you listen to the Song of Life.
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    How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck... (1976)

     

    We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.