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Werner Herzog Inspirational Quotes (263)

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It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means feature film in disguise.
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Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
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In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.
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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.
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Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
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I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.
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With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
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I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
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English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
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I do have a clear vision, and I do see things that are existing in my quote-unquote spirit, but that doesn't necessary make me a very spiritual person.
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I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.
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I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.
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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.
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When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.
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The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?
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THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.
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[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.
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I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A. Baker, and I mention a book, read this, read it, read it if you are serious of being in any type of art or into filmmaking, or films that I should quote as examples.
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Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.
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