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It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means feature film in disguise.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
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It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.
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In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams.
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It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave [La Soufrière].
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I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.
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People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
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Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.
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This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.
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If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.
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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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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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I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.
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There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
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Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
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