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Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous.

— Werner Herzog Herzog on Herzog (2002)

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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

Grizzly Man (2006)

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Minnesota declaration (1999)

If I abandon this project I would be a man without dreams and I don't want to live like that: I live my life or I end my life with this project.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

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