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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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I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine I do not think in those terms.
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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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I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
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I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
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Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
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When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.
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Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
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I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.
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