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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.
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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again
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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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I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.
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I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
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There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
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Jack Reacher was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.
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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
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People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.
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Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
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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'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
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As for the anger of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
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If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
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