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I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
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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 have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
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Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not relying on your creative instincts and you're not relying on something which brings life into movies and excitement into it.
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If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
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I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
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The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.
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Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
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