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Werner Herzog Inspirational Quotes (263)

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Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.
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It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave [La Soufrière].
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For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can find anywhere around in the world. There's no imperfections, and yet I don't need to know every single pore in her face.
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At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.
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We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.
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Nature is monumentally indifferent.
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I'm reminded of an interview Larry King had on his talk show with one of Michael Jackson's sisters. He's talking about how many millions she made on her latest record, and all of a sudden, she looks at him tearfully and says, Larry, you know, I'm not interested in money or sales or songs. I'm a spiritual person. And I thought, Oh my god...
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I am a product of my failures.
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I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.
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Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
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Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.
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Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.
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Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.
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Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
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If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
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Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.
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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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