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Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.
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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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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
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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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[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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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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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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Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
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at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.
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We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.
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Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
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It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
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A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ Into the Inferno]: our planet is indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike.
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