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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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Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.
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Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.
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This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.
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The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
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I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
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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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If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.
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For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my documentaries were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.
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If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
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I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.
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I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.
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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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Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.
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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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Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.
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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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