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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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It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.
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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.
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I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
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There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.
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I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.
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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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Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not relying on your creative instincts and you're not relying on something which brings life into movies and excitement into it.
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I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission or something like that.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.
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We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.
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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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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
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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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If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
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I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
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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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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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