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" I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations. "
Werner Herzog
Conversations
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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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" The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man. "
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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 do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. "
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" I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Events
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Will
" 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'm the last one who would do self-analysis. "
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Who
Would
" I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. "
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Without
" I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. "
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" 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
" Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. "
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Should
Scholars
Film
" 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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First
Pole
Ego
" Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. "
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Facts
Power
Sometimes
" 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
" I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. "
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Hard
Just
Film
" I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. "
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Experience
Man
Professional
" 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 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 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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You
Mountains
Map
" I'm not an activist. "
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" I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them. "
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Nothing
Against
" I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. "
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Writing
" 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 should be holy war against yoga classes. "
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War
Holy
" I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. "
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Bad
Sleepless
Nights