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May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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I am a product of my failures.
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Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not relying on your creative instincts and you're not relying on something which brings life into movies and excitement into it.
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Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.
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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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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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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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We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.
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I'm not a journalist I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.
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For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my documentaries were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.
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I'm not a one-trick horse.
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Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
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We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.
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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
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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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If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.
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It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.
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