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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire
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In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
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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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Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
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I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
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at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again
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North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.
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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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I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.
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I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.
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I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
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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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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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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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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.
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I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
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