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We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.
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Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.
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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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I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission or something like that.
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When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.
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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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Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.
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Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I love celluloid but I don't need to continue on celluloid.
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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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