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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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Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.
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Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.
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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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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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I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
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For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was high probability some digital effects were needed, somebody made storyboards and I quickly ignored them, after half an hour I ignored them and I never used any digital effect.
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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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The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.
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I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer].
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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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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV, you know instantly that there's something wrong with the images. When you open a magazine and see the ads, you know there's something wrong with the images. And it's unhealthy and not good and outright dangerous, in my opinion.
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[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.
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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.
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Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.
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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
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I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.
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