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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.
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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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Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.
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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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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.
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I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't even try. I was realistic of what I could do and yet persuaded them into accepting numerous things that I shouldn't have filmed.
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Jack Reacher was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
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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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Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.
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There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.
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Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he wrote a book about it and gave all the details of how he spent the money, even making a 35mm celluloid feature film was possible, at least for Rodriguez.
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I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
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I always loved celluloid cameras in the early days that were sturdy and reliable. Even under tropical conditions and downpour of rain, it would still work.
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If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
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I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
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It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter Iceland where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.
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A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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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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