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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. "

Werner Herzog

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

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

" I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. "

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

Werner Herzog

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not an activist. "

Werner Herzog

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" I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. "

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

" Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "