If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.

I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.

Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.

When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.