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I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.
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The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.
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Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking it comes from your knees and thighs.
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In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams.
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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 think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
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Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.
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In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.
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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.
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Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.
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There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire
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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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Jack Reacher was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
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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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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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I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.
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