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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.
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I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.
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I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
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I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.
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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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Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.
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It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter Iceland where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.
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Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.
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I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
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I'm not a one-trick horse.
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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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You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
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As for the anger of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
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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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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.
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I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
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