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I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.
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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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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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I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
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I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
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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 you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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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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I'm not a journalist I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.
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