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I am a product of my failures.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in a language of their age group which I have to learn first.
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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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If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
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Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.
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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.
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When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.
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Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
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There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
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