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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 the part is really good of course I would like to do it.
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Fragility of modern world leaves me with the idea we'd better anticipate what's going on. We take our right steps today and now. And we'd better avoid, that we are overdependent on, let's say, the internet.
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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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Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
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I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.
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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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When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.
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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 prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
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The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.
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For example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his film Viva Zapata!, how he introduces his leading character Marlon Brando into the film. No film ever did it as wonderful as he did it.
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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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With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
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In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.
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It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter Iceland where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.
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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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Orson Welles, one of the best of the best. One of the strongest. As strong as an animal. He somehow was pushed out of the business because he would spend the entire budget of the film before he had even done half the pre-production.
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