For example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his film Viva Zapata!, how he introduces his leading character Marlon Brando into the film. No film ever did it as wonderful as he did it.

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Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Werner Herzog

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

Werner Herzog

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I love nature but against my better judgment.

Werner Herzog

nature-love judgment

Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.

Werner Herzog

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Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Werner Herzog

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Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.

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stupidity eye real

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

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kung-fu film intellectual

In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.

Werner Herzog

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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

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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.

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Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.

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environmental climate community

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

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ocean dream sleep

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

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nature feet world

If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.

Werner Herzog

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

Werner Herzog

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You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.

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Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.

Werner Herzog

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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.

Werner Herzog

villain would-be thinking