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Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.
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I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.
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Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
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I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.
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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.
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My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.
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By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.
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I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
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Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.
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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 would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
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There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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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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