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You should look straight at a film that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film [Encounters at the End of the World] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.
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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.
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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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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
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We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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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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When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.
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I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
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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'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
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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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Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
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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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By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.
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You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.
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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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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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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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