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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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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I do not want to have a cell phone. I do not want it for cultural reasons. I do not want to be available all the time. I want to have time to think and to touch somebody, and have a meal across my kitchen table without a cell phone, being constantly on tweets.
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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.
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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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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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My crew [on Fitzcarraldo filming] actually said, We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship], and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.
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Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.
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I doubt that VR will really replace the quality of books. If you want to go into let's say the Prado in Madrid and you want to go into Hieronymus Bosch or whatever, you'd rather go into books and you take your time and it's sitting there all day long and you go back and revisit it and it becomes part of your physical life.
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My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.
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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.
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If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
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Orson Welles, one of the best of the best. One of the strongest. As strong as an animal. He somehow was pushed out of the business because he would spend the entire budget of the film before he had even done half the pre-production.
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I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.
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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'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.
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There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.
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For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my documentaries were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.
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