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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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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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The internet doesn't have any qualities, technical qualities. It's just fast, reaching out everywhere and so, it can process that and that volume of data flows and so, but it doesn't have any qualities like good or bad or ethical or non-ethical. It's humans, it's us, not the internet.
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At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.
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I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission or something like that.
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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 could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
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I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.
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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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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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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.
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Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.
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I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.
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If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
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Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.
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