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50 quotes by Werner Herzog

Website www.wernerherzog.com Werner Herzog Stipetić (German: [ˈʋɛɐ nɐ ˈhɛɐ tsoːk ˈstɪpɛtɪt ʃ]; born 5 September 1942), known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, author, actor and opera director. Herzog is considered one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders. Herzog's films often feature...
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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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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

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Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

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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... →

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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... →

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The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

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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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Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed... →

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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... →

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

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I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.

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

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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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