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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.
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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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For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can find anywhere around in the world. There's no imperfections, and yet I don't need to know every single pore in her face.
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Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.
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Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
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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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All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in a language of their age group which I have to learn first.
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One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
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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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