Werner Herzog Quotes - Page 12

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• At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.

  Werner Herzog

  Pbs, Vapid, Roaches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV, you know instantly that there's something wrong with the images. When you open a magazine and see the ads, you know there's something wrong with the images. And it's unhealthy and not good and outright dangerous, in my opinion.

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  Civilization, Tvs, Watches

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2003.

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• I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.

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  Doors, Trying, Guests

  "Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D) - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

  Werner Herzog

  Motivation, Actors, Conversation

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 25, 2009.

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• My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. 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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  Decision, Fiction, Way

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2007.

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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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  Party, Red, Events

  "Werner Herzog Talks Teaching Lock-Picking, Being A Living Legend And ‘Into The Abyss’". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.indiewire.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.

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  Alaska, Islands, Volcanoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

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  Hypnosis, Acting, Mountain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Of course there's a value in a storyboard if you do a big - let's say an action movie and actors have to move and act in front of a green screen because entire backgrounds exploding and cars flying through there have to be created separately, and in this case you better make sure the actors are precisely placed and the background action is moving in a certain moment, for this type of film you would need a storyboard.

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  Moving, Car, Flying

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.

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  School, Mean, Night

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Book, Thinking, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.

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  Editing, Cameras, Narrative

  Source: collider.com

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• Robert Rodriguez, makes a feature film in 35mm celluloid one and a half hours long, and nobody believed him, I think he wrote a book about it and gave all the details of how he spent the money, even making a 35mm celluloid feature film was possible, at least for Rodriguez.

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  Book, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility when you're trespassing. I think you haven't seen a film on volcanoes like that before. It's not National Geographic. It is wildly imaginative and very poetic and has a sense of awe that you normally do not see in films.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Volcanoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.

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  Artist, Feelings, Craftsman

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• Of course, you do not do any research: you have to go there and do your film. It's not that I would travel there before without a camera and spend half a year on one of those volcanoes and then come back with a camera. You have to have some sort of a clear mindset.

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  Volcanoes, Years, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Talking, Film, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.

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  Beautiful, Volcanoes, Iceland

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.

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  Thinking, Volcanoes, Korea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Children, Looks

  "Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D) - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.

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  Poet, Journalist

  "Werner Herzog on death, danger and the end of the world". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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