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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.
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The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?
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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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I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
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Of course, you do not do any research: you have to go there and do your film. It's not that I would travel there before without a camera and spend half a year on one of those volcanoes and then come back with a camera. You have to have some sort of a clear mindset.
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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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What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
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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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