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

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.
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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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