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Werner Herzog je německý filmový a operní režisér, scenárista a herec. Často je spojován s německou novou vlnou společně s režiséry jako Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta a dalšími. Hrdiny jeho snímků jsou často lidé s neuskutečnitelnými sny nebo s unikátním talentem. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. září 1942
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“Together, I said, we shall boil fire and stop fish.”

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To Lotte Eisner in Paris after walking from Munich to meet her, Of Walking in Ice ISBN 978-0-9796121-0-7.

“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.”

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Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] … an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.”

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Conversation with Paul Holdengräber, in “Was the 20th Century a Mistake?”, The Richard B. Saloman Distinguished Lectures & LIVE from the NYPL, Celeste Bartos Forum, New York (2007) http://www.nypl.org/events/program/2009/05/20/werner-herzog-conversation-paul-holdengräber-was-20th-century-mistake

“That man is a head taller than me. That may change.”

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"Don Lope de Aguirre" in Aguirre: The Wrath of God [Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes] (1972)

“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.”

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Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“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.”

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Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.”

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Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.”

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Minnesota declaration (1999)

“It is my firm belief, and I say this as a dictum, that all these tools now at our disposal, these things part of this explosive evolution of means of communication, mean we are now heading for an era of solitude. Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal— be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever— human solitude will increase in direct proportion.”

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Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me… I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.”

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About chickens, on the Signs of Life (1968) DVD audio commentary (2005).

“If I abandon this project I would be a man without dreams 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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Said while making Fitzcarraldo
Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.”

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31 May 1981 diary entry (pg. 248 of Herzog's book Conquest of the Useless)

“Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix… If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.”

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Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verité is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.”

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Minnesota declaration (1999)

“The kinds of landscape I try to find in my films…exist only in our dreams. For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.”

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Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“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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Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“As you see [filmmaking] makes me into a clown. And that happens to everyone — just look at Orson Welles or look at even people like Truffaut. They have become clowns.”

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Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

“Cinema Verité confounds fact and truth, and thus plows only stones. And yet, facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.”

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Minnesota declaration (1999)

“You are all wrong.”

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Responding to booing crowds at the Berlin Film Festival, who disapproved of his Lessons of Darkness (1992)

“Taking a close look at what is around us, there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle, we in comparison to that enormous articulation, we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel, a cheap novel. And we have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication, overwhelming growth, and overwhelming lack of order. Even the stars up here in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no harmony as we have conceived it. But when I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it, I love it, I love it very much, but I love it against my better judgment.”

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Burden of Dreams (1982)