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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.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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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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There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.
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I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine I do not think in those terms.
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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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With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
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Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking it comes from your knees and thighs.
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Nature is monumentally indifferent.
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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.
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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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It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
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Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.
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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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