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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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Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.
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If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.
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You should look straight at a film that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.
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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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I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
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There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.
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English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
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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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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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Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.
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I must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain things and also give me some guidance, isn't there something missing, shouldn't we address this or that? so it's not completely alone out of the blue. It's very well thought through.
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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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[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.
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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
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The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.
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Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he wrote a book about it and gave all the details of how he spent the money, even making a 35mm celluloid feature film was possible, at least for Rodriguez.
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.
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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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