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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
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If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
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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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I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
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