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Werner Herzog is a German filmmaker, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director.
* He is regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema.
* His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature.
* His filmmaking process includes disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations to characters in his films.
* Between 1962 and 2019, Herzog directed twenty fiction feature films, seven fiction short films and thirty-one documentary feature films, as well as eight documentary short films and episodes of two television series.
* He has also been the screenwriter or co-writer for all his films and for four others, and has appeared as an actor in twenty-six film or television productions.
* Herzog has won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
* He is considered one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation.