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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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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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There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
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If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
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The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.
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There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.
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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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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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If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.
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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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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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In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.
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I am a product of my failures.
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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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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.
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If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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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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