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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I'm reminded of an interview Larry King had on his talk show with one of Michael Jackson's sisters. He's talking about how many millions she made on her latest record, and all of a sudden, she looks at him tearfully and says, Larry, you know, I'm not interested in money or sales or songs. I'm a spiritual person. And I thought, Oh my god...
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In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.
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I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.
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I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.
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I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.
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There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire
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It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means feature film in disguise.
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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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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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Facts do not constitute truth.
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