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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Cinematographer
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München
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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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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 think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.
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I am a product of my failures.
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A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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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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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
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You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off. There is such silence that when you hold your breath you can hear your own heartbeat. Everything is so fresh that you have the sensation that the painters have merely retreated deeper into the dark and that they are looking at you.
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I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.
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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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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.
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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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I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
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There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire
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We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, Do we have another 100,000 years? In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.
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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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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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