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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.
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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 make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.
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A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.
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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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Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.
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I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't even try. I was realistic of what I could do and yet persuaded them into accepting numerous things that I shouldn't have filmed.
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After Jack Reacher the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.
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Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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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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We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.
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Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
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[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.
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I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
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Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
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We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, Do we have another 100,000 years? In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.
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When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.
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The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.
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