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When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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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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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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If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.
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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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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.
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We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.
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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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I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's Requiem in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.
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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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There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
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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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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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However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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Jack Reacher was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
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I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.
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