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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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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 think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
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North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.
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It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter Iceland where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.
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Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.
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The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ Into the Inferno]: our planet is indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike.
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