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I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
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When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.
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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
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I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A. Baker, and I mention a book, read this, read it, read it if you are serious of being in any type of art or into filmmaking, or films that I should quote as examples.
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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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In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.
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If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.
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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.
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The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.
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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 wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.
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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.
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Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
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My crew [on Fitzcarraldo filming] actually said, We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship], and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.
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I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.
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If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
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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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Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
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