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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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Nature is monumentally indifferent.
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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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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We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.
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North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.
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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 know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
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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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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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Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.
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After Jack Reacher the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.
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I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.
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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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