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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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Facts do not constitute truth.
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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.
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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
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You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
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We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.
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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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Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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I don't want to travel.
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Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
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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 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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I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.
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Jack Reacher was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
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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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