“Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.”
Minnesota declaration (1999)
Ве́рнер Хе́рцог Стипе́тич — немецкий кинорежиссёр, сценарист, актёр, который снял более сорока фильмов , поставил множество опер, опубликовал десятки книг. Некоторые кинокритики условно относят его к направлению нового немецкого кино — с чем сам Херцог не согласен. Wikipedia

“Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.”
Minnesota declaration (1999)
“Together, I said, we shall boil fire and stop fish.”
To Lotte Eisner in Paris after walking from Munich to meet her, Of Walking in Ice ISBN 978-0-9796121-0-7.
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
Conversation with Paul Holdengräber, in “Was the 20th Century a Mistake?”, The Richard B. Saloman Distinguished Lectures & LIVE from the NYPL, Celeste Bartos Forum, New York (2007) http://www.nypl.org/events/program/2009/05/20/werner-herzog-conversation-paul-holdengräber-was-20th-century-mistake
“That man is a head taller than me. That may change.”
"Don Lope de Aguirre" in Aguirre: The Wrath of God [Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes] (1972)
“Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
About chickens, on the Signs of Life (1968) DVD audio commentary (2005).
Said while making Fitzcarraldo
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
31 May 1981 diary entry (pg. 248 of Herzog's book Conquest of the Useless)
“We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.”
Minnesota declaration (1999)
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
Responding to booing crowds at the Berlin Film Festival, who disapproved of his Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Burden of Dreams (1982)