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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.
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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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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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I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
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Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
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Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.
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I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
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We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.
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Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.
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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.
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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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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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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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I'm not a citizen of America, I cannot vote. But it is fascinating because there's a new kind of protagonist out there that we didn't expect. By the way, I'm not in any panic at all.
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I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A. Baker, and I mention a book, read this, read it, read it if you are serious of being in any type of art or into filmmaking, or films that I should quote as examples.
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Orson Welles, one of the best of the best. One of the strongest. As strong as an animal. He somehow was pushed out of the business because he would spend the entire budget of the film before he had even done half the pre-production.
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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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