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I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.
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I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't even try. I was realistic of what I could do and yet persuaded them into accepting numerous things that I shouldn't have filmed.
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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
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Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.
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Facts do not constitute truth.
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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
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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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