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What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.
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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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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.
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But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.
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