Werner Herzog Quotes

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

Books come from within.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.