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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.
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I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do.
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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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With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
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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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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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I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.
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You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.
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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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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.
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When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.
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I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
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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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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.
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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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Jack Reacher was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
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I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.
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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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