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I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter Iceland where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.
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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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It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.
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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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It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave [La Soufrière].
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If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
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Fragility of modern world leaves me with the idea we'd better anticipate what's going on. We take our right steps today and now. And we'd better avoid, that we are overdependent on, let's say, the internet.
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I'm not a one-trick horse.
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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.
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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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I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.
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I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.
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It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means feature film in disguise.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
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I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.
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