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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
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I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
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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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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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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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It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means feature film in disguise.
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In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams.
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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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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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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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You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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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 have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.
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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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This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.
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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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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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