Werner Herzog Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

  Werner Herzog

  Book, Thinking, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I doubt that VR will really replace the quality of books. If you want to go into let's say the Prado in Madrid and you want to go into Hieronymus Bosch or whatever, you'd rather go into books and you take your time and it's sitting there all day long and you go back and revisit it and it becomes part of your physical life.

  Werner Herzog

  Book, Long, Doubt

  Source: collider.com

• I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

  Werner Herzog

  Book, Writing, People

  Interview with Trevor Johnston, www.timeout.com. 2008.

• The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.

  Werner Herzog

  Believe, Book, Giving

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, film.avclub.com. May 24, 2007.

• I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A. Baker, and I mention a book, "read this, read it, read it if you are serious of being in any type of art or into filmmaking," or films that I should quote as examples.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Book, Example

  Source: collider.com

• Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not relying on your creative instincts and you're not relying on something which brings life into movies and excitement into it.

  Werner Herzog

  Book, Creative, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

• Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he wrote a book about it and gave all the details of how he spent the money, even making a 35mm celluloid feature film was possible, at least for Rodriguez.

  Werner Herzog

  Book, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

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