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Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.

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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Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.
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In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.
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However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
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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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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.
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If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
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Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.
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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 had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.
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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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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
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The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ Into the Inferno]: our planet is indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike.
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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
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