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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
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In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.
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Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.
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If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.
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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.
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I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
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Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
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There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
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One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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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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Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
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The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ Into the Inferno]: our planet is indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike.
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It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of idea out in the media that I am a daredevil and that I risk the lives of everyone around me, but nobody ever gets hurt on my shoot. Some crew members sometimes, but the actors are OK.
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Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
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I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.
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The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.
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