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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
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I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
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If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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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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I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.
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It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of idea out in the media that I am a daredevil and that I risk the lives of everyone around me, but nobody ever gets hurt on my shoot. Some crew members sometimes, but the actors are OK.
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