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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.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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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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I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't even try. I was realistic of what I could do and yet persuaded them into accepting numerous things that I shouldn't have filmed.
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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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