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Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offend...

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People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had m...

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I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

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

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In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation...

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at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence...

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If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four mill...

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Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidit...

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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a t...

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Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars...

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Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never go...

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

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefe...

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Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are s...

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Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the s...

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Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that ra...

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Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious...

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Werner Herzog

Film director

Born: 1942-09-05

Died: N/A

Werner Herzog (born Werner Stipetic on 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, actor and opera director.More