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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 Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

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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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