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I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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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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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
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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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In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.
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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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[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.
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People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
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English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
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There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
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I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
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Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
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I do have a clear vision, and I do see things that are existing in my quote-unquote spirit, but that doesn't necessary make me a very spiritual person.
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Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.
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I'm not a citizen of America, I cannot vote. But it is fascinating because there's a new kind of protagonist out there that we didn't expect. By the way, I'm not in any panic at all.
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It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.
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There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.
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There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
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I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.
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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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