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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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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.
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English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
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The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
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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 think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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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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Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.
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We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.
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at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again
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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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[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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This climate surrounding me has reached Clive Oppenheimer. In practical terms he sees that I'm not interested in any sort of daredevil stunts, I'm just interested in the work. And he's convinced that I'm clinically sane.
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Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.
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I do not want to have a cell phone. I do not want it for cultural reasons. I do not want to be available all the time. I want to have time to think and to touch somebody, and have a meal across my kitchen table without a cell phone, being constantly on tweets.
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I do have a clear vision, and I do see things that are existing in my quote-unquote spirit, but that doesn't necessary make me a very spiritual person.
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I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
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I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
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