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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.
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I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
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I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
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If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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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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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 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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Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
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But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.
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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer].
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It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.
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Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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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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I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.
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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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I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
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