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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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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.
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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
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By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
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Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
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There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.
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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.
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We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.
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Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.
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In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.
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It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.
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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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Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.
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People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
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