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Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.
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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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