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" I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time. "
Werner Herzog
Look
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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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" Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. "
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" I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. "
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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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" I'm not an activist. "
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" I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. "
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" I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. "
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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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" The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. "
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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 travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. "
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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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" 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 into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters. "
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" I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog. "
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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'm not an interviewer. I have conversations. "
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" I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. "
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" I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them. "
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" Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man. "
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