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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.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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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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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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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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Here, all of a sudden, we have a revolution in - in communication, and it is - it is really, truly big. Internet is as big as the introduction of fire to the human race, or the introduction of electricity into our lives.
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There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
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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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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
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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 elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?
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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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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.
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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
Werner Herzog
Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.
Werner Herzog
It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means feature film in disguise.
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Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.
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I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.
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I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.
Werner Herzog
For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.
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