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Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.
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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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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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Of course, you do not do any research: you have to go there and do your film. It's not that I would travel there before without a camera and spend half a year on one of those volcanoes and then come back with a camera. You have to have some sort of a clear mindset.
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I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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After Jack Reacher the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.
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The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.
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Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
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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 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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I love nature but against my better judgment.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.
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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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It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
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I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
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In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.
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