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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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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.
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I doubt that VR will really replace the quality of books. If you want to go into let's say the Prado in Madrid and you want to go into Hieronymus Bosch or whatever, you'd rather go into books and you take your time and it's sitting there all day long and you go back and revisit it and it becomes part of your physical life.
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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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