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

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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. "

" I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. "

" 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. "

" I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks. "

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

" 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. "

" I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment. "

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

" I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. "

" The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside. "

" 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. "

" I'm the last one who would do self-analysis. "

" 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. "

" Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. "

" You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. "

" If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him. "

" I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that! "

" 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. "