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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.
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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.
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Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
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I looked, for example, to certain types of literature to which I would like to refer, like The Peregrine by J. A. Baker, and I mention a book, read this, read it, read it if you are serious of being in any type of art or into filmmaking, or films that I should quote as examples.
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For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can find anywhere around in the world. There's no imperfections, and yet I don't need to know every single pore in her face.
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
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I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.
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You should look straight at a film that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
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I do have a clear vision, and I do see things that are existing in my quote-unquote spirit, but that doesn't necessary make me a very spiritual person.
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However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my documentaries were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.
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If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
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The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
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Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
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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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