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It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter Iceland where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.
Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
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[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.
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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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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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