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" Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge. "
Werner Herzog
Film
Storytelling
Man
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" I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. "
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" I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. "
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" The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside. "
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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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" I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. "
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" 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 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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" I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. "
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" 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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" You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. "
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" Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision. "
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" I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. "
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I Think
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Holy
" I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. "
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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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You
Mountains
Map
" Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. "
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Deep
Ice
Like
" Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart. "
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Events
Doubt
Will
" Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. "
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Facts
Power
Sometimes
" 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
" Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. "
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Man
Boat
Life
" If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him. "
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Difficult
Business
Cow
" 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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Offended
Things
Human
" Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. "
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Should
Scholars
Film
" 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
Art
House
" The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man. "
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Presence
Indifferent
Man
" 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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Quality
People
" I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them. "
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Nothing
Against
" I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. "
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Bad
Sleepless
Nights
" I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office. "
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Office
Out
" I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations. "
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Conversations
Interviewer
" The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. "
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