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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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The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.
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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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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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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.
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I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.
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When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.
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May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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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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There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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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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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.
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In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams.
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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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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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