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Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
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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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If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
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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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Here, all of a sudden, we have a revolution in - in communication, and it is - it is really, truly big. Internet is as big as the introduction of fire to the human race, or the introduction of electricity into our lives.
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Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.
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It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.
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I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
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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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What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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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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I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
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You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.
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If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
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Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.
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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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In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.
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