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In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
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The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.
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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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Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
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For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was high probability some digital effects were needed, somebody made storyboards and I quickly ignored them, after half an hour I ignored them and I never used any digital effect.
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English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
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What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
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The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
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There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.
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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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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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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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I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
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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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Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
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It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means feature film in disguise.
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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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