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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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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
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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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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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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
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When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.
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I'm reminded of an interview Larry King had on his talk show with one of Michael Jackson's sisters. He's talking about how many millions she made on her latest record, and all of a sudden, she looks at him tearfully and says, Larry, you know, I'm not interested in money or sales or songs. I'm a spiritual person. And I thought, Oh my god...
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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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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.
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I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
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For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can find anywhere around in the world. There's no imperfections, and yet I don't need to know every single pore in her face.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.
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There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.
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You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off. There is such silence that when you hold your breath you can hear your own heartbeat. Everything is so fresh that you have the sensation that the painters have merely retreated deeper into the dark and that they are looking at you.
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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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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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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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