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I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.
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Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.
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It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.
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I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.
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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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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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I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.
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I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.
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Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
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I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
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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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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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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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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
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Get used to the bear behind you.
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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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Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.
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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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