Werner Herzog
1942-|
Biography
Born in Munich, Germany 
Werner Herzog Quotes
“I don’t spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.”“I’m not out to win prizes - that’s for horses.” “Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.” “I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.” “Let’s put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there’s a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It’s as simple as that.” “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.” “You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.” “Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.” “I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I’m good at that!” |
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The Film Director
Werner Herzog directed the following films:Herakles (1962) Spiel im Sand (1964) Die Beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreuz (1967) Letzte Worte (1968) Lebenszeichen (1968) Massnahmen gegen Fanatiker (1969) Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Fata Morgana (1971) Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (1971) Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) Die Große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (1974) Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (1974) Mit mir will keiner spielen (1976) Herz aus Glas (1976) Stroszek (1977) La Soufrière – Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe (1977) Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) Woyzeck (1979) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (1984) Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) Cobra Verde (1987) Les Gauloises (1988) Echos aus einem düsteren Reich (1990) Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein (1991) Lektionen in Finsternis (1992) Glocken aus der Tiefe – Glaube und Aberglaube in Rußland (1995) Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) Mein liebster Feind – Klaus Kinski (1999) Pilgrimage (2001) Invincible (2001) Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) Wheel of Time (2003) The White Diamond (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Rescue Dawn (2006) Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) |
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