German - Director | September 5, 1942 -
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.
Werner Herzog
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Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
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Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
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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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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
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The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.
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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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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
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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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I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.
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