Werner Herzog's biography

Werner Herzog Stipetić is 80 years old film director born at Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Werner was born on Saturday 5th of September 1942. Werner is often nicknamed as Werner Herzog Stipetić, Werner Herzog, Werner H. Stipetic. According to year of birth 1942 Werner belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 5th of September means Werner is Virgo. Virgo is an earthy sign of Zodiac Belt. People born under this Rising Sign are practical in nature. They believe in reality and represents themselves as a strong person.

Werner is white german. He is citizen of Germany. Werner is an adherent of atheism. Werner´s primary profession is to be film director. You can know Werner also as film producer, screenwriter, film editor, film actor, author, cinematographer, voice actor. He is recently known as documentary filmmaker.

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Werner Herzog's schools

We found 1 school He attended. Name of the school: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Werner Herzog's career

Werner´s main focus is to be film director. Werner is famous thanks to Grizzly Man. Werner is also a member of Directors Guild of America.

Awards and competitions

Werner Herzog's Awards

Herzog received a lifetime achievement award, the Pardo d'onore, from the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2013, only four months after being similarly honored for his lifetime achievement in cinema by the German Film Academy in April 2013.

Werner Herzog's Nominations

He was nominated for César Award for Best Foreign Film for work Aguirre, the Wrath of God in 1976
Werner was nominated for European Film Award for Best Documentary for work My Best Fiend in 1999

What Werner Herzog has done for a first time

Said in DVD commentary for Incident at Loch Ness (2004) that his first book was a Marshal- Plan copy of "Winnie the Pooh", and it remains one of his favorites.
Claims to have been 17 years old before he made his first first phone call.
When he first took an IQ test as a young boy, he scored 124. He re-took the test years later and scored an average 101.
He shot his first films with a camera he stole from the Munich Film School.

Werner Herzog's quotes

TV uses landscapes. I transform landscapes - I direct landscapes.
[on the ending of Stroszek (1977)] When I saw the dancing chicken, I knew I would create a grand metaphor - for what, I don't know.
[on working with Klaus Kinski] I had to domesticate the wild beast.
Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. Very few people seek these images today.
I love nature but against my better judgment.
[During the making of Fitzcarraldo (1982)] I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
Every gray hair on my head I call Kinski.
If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
Film should be looked at straight on, it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
Through invention, through imagination, through fabrication, I become more truthful than the little bureaucrats.
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.
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good Kung Fu film.
If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big colour photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
[on Klaus Kinski] 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.
Our children will hate us for not throwing hand grenades into every TV station because of commercials.
[on Klaus Kinski] Every gray hair on my head is because of Kinski.
You leave this jungle now and you'll find eight bullets in you and the ninth one will be for me. [to Klaus Kinski on the set of Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)].
I'm not out to win prizes - that's for dogs and horses.
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!
I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
Of the filmmakers with whom I feel some kinship Griffith, Murnau, Pudovkin, BuÃ±uel and Kurosawa come to mind. Everything these men did has the touch of greatness.
[on Bruno S. in the film The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)] I instantly knew he could be the leading character in "Kaspar Hauser".
[on whether he'd like to direct a film like Jack Reacher (2012)] I've made bigger films than that, "One Shot" [former title] is just more expensive.
[his first interview question to death-row inmates] Your crime is abominable and monstrous, but I will treat you as a human being.
Never show anything to anyone in a documentary. They will become self-conscious and freak out. The will think, 'Oh, the light on me was bad', or 'My hairdo wasn't good enough', and 'My God, I spoke too fast'. Never, never, ever, ever do that.
There are billions of people who have cellphones. All of them can shoot a movie on it, if you want to do that. The Internet is spread out into everywhere, so you have to find your own means, your new outlets, for distribution.
I make films because I have not learned anything else.
[on Nastassja Kinski] To understand Nastassja, you must look at her parents. Her mother is a poet, her father was possessed.
Chance is the lifeblood of cinema.
Day one is the point of no return.
There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need.
[when asked about his favourite Muppet] I do not know Jim Henson and I do not know the Muppets.
We can never know what truth really is. The best we can do is approximate... Truth can never be definitively captured or described, though the quest to find answers is what gives meaning to our existence.
[on casting the notorious Wilhelm von Homburg in Stroszek (1977)] Well, he was a dangerous man with a huge amount of criminal energy. And he was the right one to play a pimp, a dangerous pimp. So it was a good choice. [2014]
You are all wrong!
It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid.
On David Lynch David and I have a close affinity, and respect each other deeply. I appreciate his work, and though our films are very different, at times they touch each other.
Chickens in some forms- roasted, for example- are perfectly acceptable to me, but look into their eyes and bear witness to genuine, bottomless stupidity. They are the most horrifying and nightmarish creatures in this world.
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Werner Herzog's height, body shape

Lets describe how Werner Herzog looks. We will focus on Werner´s height, body shape and hair color. He is tall as 6' 1" (185 cm). Body build is average. Werner´s hair is shade of salt and pepper.

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