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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.
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I am a product of my failures.
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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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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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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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It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch a film, let's say The Terminator or whatever.
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There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.
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In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.
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I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
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I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.
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I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.
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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.
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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.
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The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.
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What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
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If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.
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