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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Facts do not constitute truth.
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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.
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Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
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Jack Reacher was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
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Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
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The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?
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Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.
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We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.
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I am a product of my failures.
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[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
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I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.
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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 always loved celluloid cameras in the early days that were sturdy and reliable. Even under tropical conditions and downpour of rain, it would still work.
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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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If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
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Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
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