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Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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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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I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
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Fragility of modern world leaves me with the idea we'd better anticipate what's going on. We take our right steps today and now. And we'd better avoid, that we are overdependent on, let's say, the internet.
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Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting Encounters at the End of the World, I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.
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I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
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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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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 must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain things and also give me some guidance, isn't there something missing, shouldn't we address this or that? so it's not completely alone out of the blue. It's very well thought through.
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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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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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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.
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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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It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.
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My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all movies for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
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Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
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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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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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