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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.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting Encounters at the End of the World, I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.
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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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Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.
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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.
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For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.
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Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.
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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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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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If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.
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I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
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If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
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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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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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The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.
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Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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