"Academia is the death of cinema. It is……" — Werner Herzog
"Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates."
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115 Quotes by Werner Herzog
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ِِِِِِِِِِArt house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want…
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Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to…
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The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and…
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For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for…
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A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it…
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I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever…
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If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with…
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of…
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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…
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We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like…
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Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
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They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.
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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida.…
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In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.
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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men,…
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Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the…
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Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range…
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I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.
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There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have…
— Christian Wiman
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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