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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.
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I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
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When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.
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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
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I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
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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 could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.
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I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.
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Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.
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