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The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.
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I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A. Baker, and I mention a book, read this, read it, read it if you are serious of being in any type of art or into filmmaking, or films that I should quote as examples.
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
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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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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.
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We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, Do we have another 100,000 years? In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.
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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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You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.
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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 do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
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You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.
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I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.
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If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.
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