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Werner Herzog

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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 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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It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.
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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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I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
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In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
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If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
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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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Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.
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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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But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.
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Facts do not constitute truth.
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I don't want to travel.
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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
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While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.
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This climate surrounding me has reached Clive Oppenheimer. In practical terms he sees that I'm not interested in any sort of daredevil stunts, I'm just interested in the work. And he's convinced that I'm clinically sane.
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Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
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[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
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