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There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he wrote a book about it and gave all the details of how he spent the money, even making a 35mm celluloid feature film was possible, at least for Rodriguez.
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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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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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Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.
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You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.
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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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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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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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We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, Do we have another 100,000 years? In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.
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One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
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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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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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Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.
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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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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.
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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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Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
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I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.
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