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

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
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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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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.
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This climate surrounding me has reached Clive Oppenheimer. In practical terms he sees that I'm not interested in any sort of daredevil stunts, I'm just interested in the work. And he's convinced that I'm clinically sane.
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My crew [on Fitzcarraldo filming] actually said, We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship], and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.
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There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.
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I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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