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" I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. "
Werner Herzog
I Think
War
Holy
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" Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart. "
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" I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. "
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" 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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" 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 have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. "
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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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Yes
Pyramids
You
" 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 travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. "
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Any
Without
" 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
" 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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Want
Art
House
" Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. "
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Should
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Film
" I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. "
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Experience
Man
Professional
" I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog. "
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Pretending
Find
Internet
" I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. "
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Cinema
Music
Writing
" The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside. "
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Looking
Universe
You
" I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time. "
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Look
Sit
Films
" Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. "
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Facts
Power
Sometimes
" 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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Difficult
Business
Cow
" I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. "
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Bad
Sleepless
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" Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. "
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Deep
Ice
Like
" I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations. "
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Conversations
Interviewer
" 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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Show
" 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
" 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 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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Way
Never
Along