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Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
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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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I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
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Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
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I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
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There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.
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Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.
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We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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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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People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
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Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I love celluloid but I don't need to continue on celluloid.
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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
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It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.
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I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.
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When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.
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THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.
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I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
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