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“ If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate. ”

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

~ Werner Herzog

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If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

~ Werner Herzog

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at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again

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

~ Werner Herzog

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