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The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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München
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Tourism is a mortal sin.
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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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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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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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Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
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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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This climate surrounding me has reached Clive Oppenheimer. In practical terms he sees that I'm not interested in any sort of daredevil stunts, I'm just interested in the work. And he's convinced that I'm clinically sane.
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Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.
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Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.
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There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
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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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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.
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