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I'm not a journalist I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
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I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.
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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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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
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I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave [La Soufrière].
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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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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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The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.
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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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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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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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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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I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.
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Nature is monumentally indifferent.
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