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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.
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A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.
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What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.
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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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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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There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.
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When I see a face, I see a face in general and I see you are curious, I see the curiosity but I don't not look after a dermatological report of your cheeks, and that's what you see when you're too high-resolution. And now desperately in post-production, in color grading, they are trying to wipe out the precision of the dermatological report.
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If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
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I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.
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I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.
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Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
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I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.
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I don't want to travel.
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If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
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It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
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