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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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München
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all movies for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
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The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ Into the Inferno]: our planet is indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike.
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There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.
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The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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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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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
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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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If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.
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Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
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What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.
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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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While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.
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Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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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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Nature is monumentally indifferent.
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