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I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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Here, all of a sudden, we have a revolution in - in communication, and it is - it is really, truly big. Internet is as big as the introduction of fire to the human race, or the introduction of electricity into our lives.
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Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.
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The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.
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I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do.
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James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
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If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A. Baker, and I mention a book, read this, read it, read it if you are serious of being in any type of art or into filmmaking, or films that I should quote as examples.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
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Jack Reacher was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
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Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.
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I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.
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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
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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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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 believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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