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May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
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It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of idea out in the media that I am a daredevil and that I risk the lives of everyone around me, but nobody ever gets hurt on my shoot. Some crew members sometimes, but the actors are OK.
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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.
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I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.
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