If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
Werner HerzogYou should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
Werner HerzogI know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
Werner HerzogFor example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his film Viva Zapata!, how he introduces his leading character Marlon Brando into the film. No film ever did it as wonderful as he did it.
Werner Herzog