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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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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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I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's Requiem in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.
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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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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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I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.
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When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.
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Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
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When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.
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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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I'm not a journalist I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.
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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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Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
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In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.
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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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Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.
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English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
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