Werner Herzog
Director
1942-09-05
Books by Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice
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Twilight World
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Quotes by Werner Herzog
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Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect
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Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again
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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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What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
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Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
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Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect
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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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at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again
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Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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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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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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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 politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.
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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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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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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
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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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