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Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I love celluloid but I don't need to continue on celluloid.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.
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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.
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I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
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Here, all of a sudden, we have a revolution in - in communication, and it is - it is really, truly big. Internet is as big as the introduction of fire to the human race, or the introduction of electricity into our lives.
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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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