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Only Quotes by Werner Herzog
- The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist…
- I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
- You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
- I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
- 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.
- I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
- In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence…
- It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is…
- There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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