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

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?
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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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You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.
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Here, all of a sudden, we have a revolution in - in communication, and it is - it is really, truly big. Internet is as big as the introduction of fire to the human race, or the introduction of electricity into our lives.
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For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.
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As for the anger of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine 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 have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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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 think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
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Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.
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Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he wrote a book about it and gave all the details of how he spent the money, even making a 35mm celluloid feature film was possible, at least for Rodriguez.
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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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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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With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
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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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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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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
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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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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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