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When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Jack Reacher was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
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I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.
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When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.
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I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.
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If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
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Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.
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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in a language of their age group which I have to learn first.
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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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If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.
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In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams.
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I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.
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Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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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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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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