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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.
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I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
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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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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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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
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I don't want to travel.
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Fragility of modern world leaves me with the idea we'd better anticipate what's going on. We take our right steps today and now. And we'd better avoid, that we are overdependent on, let's say, the internet.
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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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Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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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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Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
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After Jack Reacher the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.
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When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.
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I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission or something like that.
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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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I do not want to have a cell phone. I do not want it for cultural reasons. I do not want to be available all the time. I want to have time to think and to touch somebody, and have a meal across my kitchen table without a cell phone, being constantly on tweets.
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