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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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James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
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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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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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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.
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I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.
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[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
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In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.
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I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
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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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I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
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Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.
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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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It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.
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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.
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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
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