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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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One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
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My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all movies for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
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I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't even try. I was realistic of what I could do and yet persuaded them into accepting numerous things that I shouldn't have filmed.
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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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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
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The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]
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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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However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.
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It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means feature film in disguise.
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It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter Iceland where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.
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Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.
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Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.
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I must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain things and also give me some guidance, isn't there something missing, shouldn't we address this or that? so it's not completely alone out of the blue. It's very well thought through.
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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.
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This climate surrounding me has reached Clive Oppenheimer. In practical terms he sees that I'm not interested in any sort of daredevil stunts, I'm just interested in the work. And he's convinced that I'm clinically sane.
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We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.
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It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.
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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.
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