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THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.
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If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.
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I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.
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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.
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Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
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English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
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After Jack Reacher the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.
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Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.
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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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In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.
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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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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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Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
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I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.
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What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.
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