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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.
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In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.
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If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
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I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
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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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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]
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I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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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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For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.
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I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.
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At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.
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Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
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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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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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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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Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.
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My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all movies for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
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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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