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Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not relying on your creative instincts and you're not relying on something which brings life into movies and excitement into it.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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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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Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting Encounters at the End of the World, I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.
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I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
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It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
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When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.
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I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.
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We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.
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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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While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.
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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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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.
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Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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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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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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