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I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
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I am a product of my failures.
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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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There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.
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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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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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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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It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.
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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 always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's Requiem in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.
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It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.
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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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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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The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film [Encounters at the End of the World] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.
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I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
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