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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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Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.
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You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
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I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
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If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
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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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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer].
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There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.
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I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.
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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
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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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Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.
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You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off. There is such silence that when you hold your breath you can hear your own heartbeat. Everything is so fresh that you have the sensation that the painters have merely retreated deeper into the dark and that they are looking at you.
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By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
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I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
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While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.
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