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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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München
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I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
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You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
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After Jack Reacher the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.
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I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
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If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.
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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.
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My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all movies for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
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Here, all of a sudden, we have a revolution in - in communication, and it is - it is really, truly big. Internet is as big as the introduction of fire to the human race, or the introduction of electricity into our lives.
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Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.
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Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.
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One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
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I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
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At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.
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I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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