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You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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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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Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
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If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.
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I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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