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Werner Herzog on Film

born 1942 Germany

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If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

Film is not the art of scholars, but illiterates.

As you see [filmmaking] makes me into a clown. And that happens to everyone — just look at Orson Welles or look at even people like Truffaut. They have become clowns.

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Werner Herzog (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.