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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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Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
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Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
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Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
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I love nature but against my better judgment.
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It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.
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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
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I don't want to travel.
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Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
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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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Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]
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Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not relying on your creative instincts and you're not relying on something which brings life into movies and excitement into it.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.
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Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.
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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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