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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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I'm not a one-trick horse.
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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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If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.
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It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter Iceland where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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Nature is monumentally indifferent.
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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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I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I love celluloid but I don't need to continue on celluloid.
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We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.
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When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.
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Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking it comes from your knees and thighs.
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Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.
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After Jack Reacher the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.
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The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film [Encounters at the End of the World] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.
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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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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
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