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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.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.
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There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
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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'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
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Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.
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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 know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
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I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
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Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.
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The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.
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Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.
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I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
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I'm not a one-trick horse.
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
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Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
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If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
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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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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 am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.
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