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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. "
Werner Herzog
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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 like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. "
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" Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision. "
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" 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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