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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
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The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.
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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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The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
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By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.
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It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.
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It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of idea out in the media that I am a daredevil and that I risk the lives of everyone around me, but nobody ever gets hurt on my shoot. Some crew members sometimes, but the actors are OK.
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I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.
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At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.
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I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.
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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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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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at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again
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