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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer].
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[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.
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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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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
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I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.
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Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
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I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
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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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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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I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.
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Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.
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You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.
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