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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter Iceland where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's Requiem in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.
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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.
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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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I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.
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I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
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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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We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV, you know instantly that there's something wrong with the images. When you open a magazine and see the ads, you know there's something wrong with the images. And it's unhealthy and not good and outright dangerous, in my opinion.
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I do not want to have a cell phone. I do not want it for cultural reasons. I do not want to be available all the time. I want to have time to think and to touch somebody, and have a meal across my kitchen table without a cell phone, being constantly on tweets.
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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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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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Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
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Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.
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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
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But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.
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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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