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We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.
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There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
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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 have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.
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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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I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
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I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.
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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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I'm not a citizen of America, I cannot vote. But it is fascinating because there's a new kind of protagonist out there that we didn't expect. By the way, I'm not in any panic at all.
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I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.
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I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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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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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
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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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The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.
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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.
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When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.
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