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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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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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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
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Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.
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I'm reminded of an interview Larry King had on his talk show with one of Michael Jackson's sisters. He's talking about how many millions she made on her latest record, and all of a sudden, she looks at him tearfully and says, Larry, you know, I'm not interested in money or sales or songs. I'm a spiritual person. And I thought, Oh my god...
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I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
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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 find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
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Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.
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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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It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of idea out in the media that I am a daredevil and that I risk the lives of everyone around me, but nobody ever gets hurt on my shoot. Some crew members sometimes, but the actors are OK.
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.
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My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.
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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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For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my documentaries were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.
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Jack Reacher was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
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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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