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There is never an excuse not to finish a film.

Werner Herzog

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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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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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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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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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If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.
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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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Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.
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When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.
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It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.
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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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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
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I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.
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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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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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You should look straight at a film that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
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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 do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
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Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I love celluloid but I don't need to continue on celluloid.
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