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Werner Herzog Inspirational Quotes (263)

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I love nature but against my better judgment.
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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
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The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
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For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my documentaries were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.
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All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in a language of their age group which I have to learn first.
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You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.
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Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.
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I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
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It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.
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We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.
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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.
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We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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As for the anger of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
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I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.
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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.
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However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
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The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.
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I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer].
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