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Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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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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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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This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.
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While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.
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I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.
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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, Do we have another 100,000 years? In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.
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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
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I prefer the material woman.
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I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
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Nature is monumentally indifferent.
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
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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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I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
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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 never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.
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