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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.
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I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.
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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 do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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When I see a face, I see a face in general and I see you are curious, I see the curiosity but I don't not look after a dermatological report of your cheeks, and that's what you see when you're too high-resolution. And now desperately in post-production, in color grading, they are trying to wipe out the precision of the dermatological report.
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I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
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In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.
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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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