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I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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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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I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
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There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.
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Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.
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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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I don't want to travel.
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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
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If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
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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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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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[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
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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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Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
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