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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting Encounters at the End of the World, I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.
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If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
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I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.
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The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.
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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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I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.
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I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.
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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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I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?
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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
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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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I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer].
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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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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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Facts do not constitute truth.
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.
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It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave [La Soufrière].
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