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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. "
Werner Herzog
Walking
Breathing
Working
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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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" I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. "
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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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" I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks. "
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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 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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" The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. "
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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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" Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. "
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" I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. "
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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 like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. "
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" I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. "
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" The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man. "
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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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" The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside. "
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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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" Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. "
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