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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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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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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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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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If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
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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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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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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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I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
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There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.
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My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all movies for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
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I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's Requiem in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.
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I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.
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ِِِِِِِِِِArt house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.
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Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
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It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.
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I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
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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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