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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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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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München
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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 shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
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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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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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Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
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I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.
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I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
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I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.
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