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We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.
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The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.
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I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do.
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You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off. There is such silence that when you hold your breath you can hear your own heartbeat. Everything is so fresh that you have the sensation that the painters have merely retreated deeper into the dark and that they are looking at you.
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I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
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Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting Encounters at the End of the World, I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.
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Facts do not constitute truth.
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There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.
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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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Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.
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You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.
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My crew [on Fitzcarraldo filming] actually said, We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship], and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.
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I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.
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James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
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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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It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.
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I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.
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