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In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.
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What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
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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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I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.
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By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.
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[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
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My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all movies for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.
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I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.
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You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
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I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
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I am a product of my failures.
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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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For example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his film Viva Zapata!, how he introduces his leading character Marlon Brando into the film. No film ever did it as wonderful as he did it.
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I don't want to travel.
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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.
Werner Herzog
There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
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