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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.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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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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James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
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Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.
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However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.
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It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch a film, let's say The Terminator or whatever.
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[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.
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When I see a face, I see a face in general and I see you are curious, I see the curiosity but I don't not look after a dermatological report of your cheeks, and that's what you see when you're too high-resolution. And now desperately in post-production, in color grading, they are trying to wipe out the precision of the dermatological report.
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If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
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Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
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Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking it comes from your knees and thighs.
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After Jack Reacher the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.
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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
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Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.
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