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There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.
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It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.
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I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
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If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
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I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
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I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.
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What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
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Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not relying on your creative instincts and you're not relying on something which brings life into movies and excitement into it.
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I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.
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I prefer the material woman.
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