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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.
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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'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.
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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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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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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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I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.
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I must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain things and also give me some guidance, isn't there something missing, shouldn't we address this or that? so it's not completely alone out of the blue. It's very well thought through.
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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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After Jack Reacher the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.
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I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
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