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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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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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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of idea out in the media that I am a daredevil and that I risk the lives of everyone around me, but nobody ever gets hurt on my shoot. Some crew members sometimes, but the actors are OK.
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My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.
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I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
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I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
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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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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
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In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.
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I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.
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Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
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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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[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
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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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You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.
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When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.
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By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.
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