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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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There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
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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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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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I don't want to travel.
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You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
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Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.
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May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
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This climate surrounding me has reached Clive Oppenheimer. In practical terms he sees that I'm not interested in any sort of daredevil stunts, I'm just interested in the work. And he's convinced that I'm clinically sane.
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Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.
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Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
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You should look straight at a film that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
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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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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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[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
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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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After Jack Reacher the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.
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I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
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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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We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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