I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

— Werner Herzog

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

— Werner Herzog

Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.

— Werner Herzog

Meanwhile, it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist café between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the café has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?

— Werner Herzog

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

— Werner Herzog

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honor and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.

— Werner Herzog

Seder fur such UND Got been all

— Werner Herzog

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.

— Werner Herzog

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

— Werner Herzog

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

— Werner Herzog