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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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One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
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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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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 have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.
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I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.
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Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.
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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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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
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Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
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While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.
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What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
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If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do.
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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.
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