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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.

— 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.

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

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verité is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.

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