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I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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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.
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There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.
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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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My crew [on Fitzcarraldo filming] actually said, We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship], and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.
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I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.
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You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
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You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.
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At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.
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I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
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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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[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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In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.
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It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.
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We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.
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