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Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't even try. I was realistic of what I could do and yet persuaded them into accepting numerous things that I shouldn't have filmed.
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Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
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I'm not a citizen of America, I cannot vote. But it is fascinating because there's a new kind of protagonist out there that we didn't expect. By the way, I'm not in any panic at all.
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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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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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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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I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.
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I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.
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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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When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.
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If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
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When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.
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I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.
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