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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
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[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
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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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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.
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Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.
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Facts do not constitute truth.
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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
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The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.
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You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
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I don't want to travel.
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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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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.
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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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If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.
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