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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 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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I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.
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It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.
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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
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Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
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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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For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was high probability some digital effects were needed, somebody made storyboards and I quickly ignored them, after half an hour I ignored them and I never used any digital effect.
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Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he wrote a book about it and gave all the details of how he spent the money, even making a 35mm celluloid feature film was possible, at least for Rodriguez.
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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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It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.
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I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
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When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.
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I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission or something like that.
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I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine I do not think in those terms.
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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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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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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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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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There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire
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