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I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my documentaries were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.
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James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.
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There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
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Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.
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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
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However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
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I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
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Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.
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I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.
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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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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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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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I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't even try. I was realistic of what I could do and yet persuaded them into accepting numerous things that I shouldn't have filmed.
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There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.
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