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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I love nature but against my better judgment.
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I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.
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Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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Here, all of a sudden, we have a revolution in - in communication, and it is - it is really, truly big. Internet is as big as the introduction of fire to the human race, or the introduction of electricity into our lives.
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Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking it comes from your knees and thighs.
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