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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
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If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
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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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I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
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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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