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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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It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter Iceland where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.
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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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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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Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.
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Nature is monumentally indifferent.
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I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do.
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My crew [on Fitzcarraldo filming] actually said, We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship], and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.
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At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.
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Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
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Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.
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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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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.
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In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.
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People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
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You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.
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Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
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I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.
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Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
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