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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.
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It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave [La Soufrière].
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I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
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For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.
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What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.
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Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.
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Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
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The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.
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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 wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's Requiem in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.
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As for the anger of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
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Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he wrote a book about it and gave all the details of how he spent the money, even making a 35mm celluloid feature film was possible, at least for Rodriguez.
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The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
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Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
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For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my documentaries were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.
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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.
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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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We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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