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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain things and also give me some guidance, isn't there something missing, shouldn't we address this or that? so it's not completely alone out of the blue. It's very well thought through.
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Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.
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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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We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
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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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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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The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
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You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
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