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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.
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As for the anger of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
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When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.
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I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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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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Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
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There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.
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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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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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Nature is monumentally indifferent.
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There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
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My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.
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It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch a film, let's say The Terminator or whatever.
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I doubt that VR will really replace the quality of books. If you want to go into let's say the Prado in Madrid and you want to go into Hieronymus Bosch or whatever, you'd rather go into books and you take your time and it's sitting there all day long and you go back and revisit it and it becomes part of your physical life.
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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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