For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was high probability some digital effects were needed, somebody made storyboards and I quickly ignored them, after half an hour I ignored them and I never used any digital effect.

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.

For 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.