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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. "
Werner Herzog
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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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" I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. "
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" 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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" I'm not an activist. "
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" The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside. "
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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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" I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters. "
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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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" 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'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. "
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" I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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 psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. "
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" Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. "
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" The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man. "
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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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" I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. "
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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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" Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. "
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" I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations. "
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" I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them. "
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