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While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
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It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.
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I'm not a citizen of America, I cannot vote. But it is fascinating because there's a new kind of protagonist out there that we didn't expect. By the way, I'm not in any panic at all.
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In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.
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