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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.
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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
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My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.
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You should look straight at a film that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
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Fragility of modern world leaves me with the idea we'd better anticipate what's going on. We take our right steps today and now. And we'd better avoid, that we are overdependent on, let's say, the internet.
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People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
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In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.
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When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.
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I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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My crew [on Fitzcarraldo filming] actually said, We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship], and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.
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The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.
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Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
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English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
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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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Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking it comes from your knees and thighs.
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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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Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
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