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Werner Herzog Biography

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director.

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ِِِِِِِِِِ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.

Art, Audiences, Mean, Simple, Theaters, Vanishing

It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.

Energy, Happens, Life, Sometimes, Things, Vibrancy

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

Away, Devil, Film, Hell, Necessary, Wrestle

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

Convincing, Half, James, Thinking, Villain, Would Be

I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.

Deeper, Ecstatic, Facts, Reality, Way

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Holy, Thinking, War, Yoga

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.

Creativity, Intuition, Kills, Storyboard, Thinking

I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.

Actor, Actors, Clinically, Hurt, Single, Statistics

I always loved celluloid cameras in the early days that were sturdy and reliable. Even under tropical conditions and downpour of rain, it would still work.

Cameras, Celluloid, Rain, Reliable, Tropical, Work

I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.

Beauty, Blow, Ideas, Onto, Sweet, Torn

Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.

Alive, Flag, Flags, Movies, Real

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

Believe, Chaos, Common, Directors, Hostility, Universe

There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.

Civilization, Culture, See, Vehemence

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.

Korea, North, Propaganda, See, Volcano, Volcanoes

I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.

Filmmaker, Prudent, Think, Thinking

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.

Advantage, Creating, Dream, Sudden, Technology, Years

Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

Continents, Immediate, Land, Men, Ocean, Sheer

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

Cope, Enough, Film, Hard, Releasing, Work

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

Adventure, Experience, Man, Men, Professional

If you don't have a deal in two days, you won't have a deal in two years

Days, Deal, Deals, Two, Years

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