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Orson Welles, one of the best of the best. One of the strongest. As strong as an animal. He somehow was pushed out of the business because he would spend the entire budget of the film before he had even done half the pre-production.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
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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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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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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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Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.
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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
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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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If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
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I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
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You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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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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I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.
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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
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I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.
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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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If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.
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