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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.
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It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
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I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.
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