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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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I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission or something like that.
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My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.
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What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.
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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 do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
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For example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his film Viva Zapata!, how he introduces his leading character Marlon Brando into the film. No film ever did it as wonderful as he did it.
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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.
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If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
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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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If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
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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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I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
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May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
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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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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams.
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