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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. "
Werner Herzog
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" 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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" Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. "
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" The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside. "
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" The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man. "
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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 find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog. "
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" I'm the last one who would do self-analysis. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. "
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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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" 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. "
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