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“I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.”

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Alexia Fast, born on September 12, 1992, is a talented film actress. She has showcased her exceptional acting skills in various film and television projects, winning the hearts of audiences worldwide. more

“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.”

Way Want Children Sometimes Character Might Film Certain Quality Dangerous Like You Approach Our Children Privilege Your Children Specifications

Author:Werner Herzog

“The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.”

Source: Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo

“A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.”

Men Heart Persons Long Said Young Answers Hair My Heart Intelligent Harm Long Hair

Book:Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo

Source: Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo

“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.”

Thinking Able Irony Defects

Author:Werner Herzog

“If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.”

Ifs Real Common Streets Projects Legs Substance Tails

Author:Werner Herzog

“Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”

Art Film Scholar

Author:Werner Herzog

“I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.”

Planets Landscape

Author:Werner Herzog

“Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.”

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Book:CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana

Source: CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana

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