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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. "
Werner Herzog
Punishment
Citizen
American
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" I'm the last one who would do self-analysis. "
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" I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that! "
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" I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. "
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" I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. "
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" I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk. "
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" I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. "
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" Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. "
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" I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks. "
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" I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground. "
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" The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man. "
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" There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. "
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" I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. "
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" I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. "
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" I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them. "
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" I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters. "
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" I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog. "
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" Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one. "
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" I'm not an activist. "
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" I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. "
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" I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office. "
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Office
Out
" Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. "
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Offended
Things
Human
" I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them. "
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See
Nothing
Against
" I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films. "
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Walking
Breathing
Working
" Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. "
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Boat
Life
" I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent. "
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" If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him. "
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" Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge. "
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" Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. "
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" The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. "
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