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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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 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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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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[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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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.
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You should look straight at a film that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
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In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.
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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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I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.
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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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With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
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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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All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in a language of their age group which I have to learn first.
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James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
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