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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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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 It has been replaced by celebrity news.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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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 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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For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my documentaries were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.
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I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
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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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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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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 discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.
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People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
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Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.
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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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Facts do not constitute truth.
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Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
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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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It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch a film, let's say The Terminator or whatever.
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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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