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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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Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.
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The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.
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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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May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
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I don't want to travel.
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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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Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.
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English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.
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I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A. Baker, and I mention a book, read this, read it, read it if you are serious of being in any type of art or into filmmaking, or films that I should quote as examples.
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All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in a language of their age group which I have to learn first.
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The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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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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If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
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You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.
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Facts do not constitute truth.
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There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.
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