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I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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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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[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.
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For example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his film Viva Zapata!, how he introduces his leading character Marlon Brando into the film. No film ever did it as wonderful as he did it.
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If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.
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When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.
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It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not relying on your creative instincts and you're not relying on something which brings life into movies and excitement into it.
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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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I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
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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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As for the anger of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
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We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, Do we have another 100,000 years? In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.
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What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.
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I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.
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I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.
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For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was high probability some digital effects were needed, somebody made storyboards and I quickly ignored them, after half an hour I ignored them and I never used any digital effect.
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I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
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