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There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I am a product of my failures.
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Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.
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I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.
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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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I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.
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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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If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.
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If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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After Jack Reacher the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.
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Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.
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Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.
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I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
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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 function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.
Werner Herzog
I love nature but against my better judgment.
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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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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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It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.
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