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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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I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.
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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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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.
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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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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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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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I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.
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I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
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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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I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.
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Get used to the bear behind you.
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I love nature but against my better judgment.
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You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
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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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I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
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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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Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
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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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at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again
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