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" I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. "
Werner Herzog
Bad
Sleepless
Nights
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" I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them. "
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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 cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. "
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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 prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks. "
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" I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time. "
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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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" The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man. "
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" You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. "
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" I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity. "
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" I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. "
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" I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. "
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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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" 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 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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Punishment
Citizen
American
" 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
" Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. "
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Man
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Life
" 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
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" Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. "
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Facts
Power
Sometimes
" I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties. "
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Red
Live
" Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. "
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You
Bad
Luck
" 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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Same
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Got
" 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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Chips
Formal
Much
" 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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Never
Along
" I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters. "
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" I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. "
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Behaviour
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" If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere. "
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" Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that. "
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" I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. "
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