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" I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. "

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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. "

" I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog. "

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" I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters. "

" Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. "

" 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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" The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man. "

" I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office. "

" Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. "

" I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. "

" 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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" 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. "

" I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. "

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" I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations. "