1. Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog is an Academy Award-nominated German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often associated with the German New Wave movement , along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, more..

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Werner Herzog:Actually, for some time now I have given some thought to opening a film school. But if I did start one up you would only be allowed to fill out an application form after you have walked alone on foot, let's say from Madrid to Kiev, a distance of about five thousand kilometres. While walking, write. Write about your experiences and give me your notebooks. I would be able to tell who had really walked the distance and who had not. While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking and what it truly involves than you ever would sitting in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. #Cinema

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#Wrong

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Werner Herzog:I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms. #Happiness

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Werner Herzog: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. #Children

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Werner Herzog:Often he was a joy, and you know, he was one of the few people I ever learned anything from. #Learning

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#Dreams

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Werner Herzog:It was worthwhile for what you see on the screen. Who cares if every grey hair on my head I call 'Kinski'? #Age and Aging

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Werner Herzog:People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder. #Love

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Werner Herzog:To me, adventure is a concept that applies only to those men and women of earlier historical times, like the mediaeval knights who travelled into the unknown. The concept has degenerated constantly since then... I absolutely loathe adventurers, and I particularly hate this old pseudo-adventurism where the mountain climb becomes about confronting the extremes of humanity. #Honor

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Werner Herzog:You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour. #Wilderness

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Werner Herzog:I'm making films for an audience out there and a very tiny fraction of them are would-be filmmakers. But let's speak of them—the would-be filmmakers—the tiny fraction. I've witnessed many times when I've showed films and was present at a screening that exactly those people feel very much encouraged by what I'm doing. #Cinema

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#Change

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Werner Herzog:I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals. #Acting and Actors

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Werner Herzog:I do not want to go into general rules of what a filmmaker should do and how he should approach his work... I am not Moses on the mountain who proclaims the rules of procedure and what is sin and what is virtue. #Passion

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Werner Herzog: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. #Work

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Werner Herzog:He was a pestilence every day... but who cares? I mean, what remains is the film. ... There has never been a man in cinema who had such a presence, such a ferocious intensity on the screen. #Cinema

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Werner Herzog:I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed. #Dreams

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Werner Herzog:I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently. #Irony

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Werner Herzog: You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. #Cinema

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Werner Herzog:It is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are, and we have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field. #Courage

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