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You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

— Werner Herzog

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Often misquoted as: "Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates"

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

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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.

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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.

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

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