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We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.
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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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If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
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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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Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.
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I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.
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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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I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.
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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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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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Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.
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You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.
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I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
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Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
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May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
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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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I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
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I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
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