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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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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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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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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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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
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The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film [Encounters at the End of the World] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.
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Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking it comes from your knees and thighs.
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Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.
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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 know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
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Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.
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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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By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.
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We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.
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Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.
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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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I always loved celluloid cameras in the early days that were sturdy and reliable. Even under tropical conditions and downpour of rain, it would still work.
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There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
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