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I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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