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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.
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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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My crew [on Fitzcarraldo filming] actually said, We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship], and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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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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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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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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I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.
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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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There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
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In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.
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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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There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
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I'm not a one-trick horse.
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
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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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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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Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.
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The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]
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