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When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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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 believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
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Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
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Facts do not constitute truth.
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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I wouldn't like to travel at all. I've been too much around.
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