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" I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. "
Werner Herzog
Write
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People
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" I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks. "
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" Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. "
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" I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations. "
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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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" You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. "
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" Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. "
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" I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent. "
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" Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. "
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" Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one. "
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You
" I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. "
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I Think
Century
" I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground. "
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" Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. "
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Deep
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" The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man. "
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Presence
Indifferent
Man
" You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. "
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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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Find
Internet
" I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. "
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Cinema
Music
Writing
" I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. "
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Afraid
Behaviour
Dictionary
" 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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Vile
Really
Know
" I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk. "
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Chips
Formal
Much
" Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge. "
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Film
Storytelling
Man
" The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside. "
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Looking
Universe
You
" 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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Creativity
Think
You
" Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that. "
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Want
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" I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films. "
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Breathing
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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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Technology
Show
" I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them. "
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Against
" There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. "
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Same
More
Got
" I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. "
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" I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. "
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" I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. "
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