When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.