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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.
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There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.
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Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
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Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he wrote a book about it and gave all the details of how he spent the money, even making a 35mm celluloid feature film was possible, at least for Rodriguez.
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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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I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.
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You better make yourself acquainted to what the requirements are, what the value of money is all about and how you create a long-term survival, and in many cases it has to do with how you handle finances.
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When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.
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Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.
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The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film [Encounters at the End of the World] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.
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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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I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
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I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.
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