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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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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
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There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.
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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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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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The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film [Encounters at the End of the World] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.
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I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
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I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
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Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.
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Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.
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If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
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Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.
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