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It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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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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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
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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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