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Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
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James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
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Facts do not constitute truth.
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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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We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV, you know instantly that there's something wrong with the images. When you open a magazine and see the ads, you know there's something wrong with the images. And it's unhealthy and not good and outright dangerous, in my opinion.
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If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.
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I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.
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Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.
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I prefer the material woman.
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English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
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Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
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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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However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.
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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.
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Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
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As for the anger of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
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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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Get used to the bear behind you.
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