Extended Interview
The landscape is a character, and I must speak its language, the language of ecstasy
Werner Herzog
Visionary and adventurer of cinema, creator of documentaries about the extreme.
All moments: Werner Herzog
- What Herzog Seeks — Werner Herzog
I seek truths in dark places where life reveals its secrets
- Werner Herzog Interview — Werner Herzog
Cinema begins where ordinary life ends, at the edge of ecstasy
- Memoir Discussion — Werner Herzog
Every man is a volcano, and my job is to reveal his passion
- Herzog Is A Poet — Werner Herzog
I'm a poet because cinema allows me to be honest with the world
- 1976 BBC Archive — Werner Herzog
Good cinema seeks new images, not repeating old stories
- 60 Minutes Interview — Werner Herzog
I'm not afraid of death because work is life, and life is cinema
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