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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.
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If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.
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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.
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If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
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Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
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We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.
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However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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I do not want to have a cell phone. I do not want it for cultural reasons. I do not want to be available all the time. I want to have time to think and to touch somebody, and have a meal across my kitchen table without a cell phone, being constantly on tweets.
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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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I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
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If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
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When I see a face, I see a face in general and I see you are curious, I see the curiosity but I don't not look after a dermatological report of your cheeks, and that's what you see when you're too high-resolution. And now desperately in post-production, in color grading, they are trying to wipe out the precision of the dermatological report.
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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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The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
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I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.
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