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There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
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Jack Reacher was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
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You better make yourself acquainted to what the requirements are, what the value of money is all about and how you create a long-term survival, and in many cases it has to do with how you handle finances.
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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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We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.
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I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
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Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting Encounters at the End of the World, I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.
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We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
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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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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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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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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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The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.
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You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off. There is such silence that when you hold your breath you can hear your own heartbeat. Everything is so fresh that you have the sensation that the painters have merely retreated deeper into the dark and that they are looking at you.
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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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Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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