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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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What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.
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At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.
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After Jack Reacher the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.
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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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It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch a film, let's say The Terminator or whatever.
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The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
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You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
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There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire
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The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
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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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I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
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At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.
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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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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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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'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.
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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
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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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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.
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