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In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, Do we have another 100,000 years? In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.
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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.
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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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I am a product of my failures.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
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I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.
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You better make yourself acquainted to what the requirements are, what the value of money is all about and how you create a long-term survival, and in many cases it has to do with how you handle finances.
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I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
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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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The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?
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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
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I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.
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If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.
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You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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