"The trees are in misery, and the birds……" — Werner Herzog
"The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder."
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115 Quotes by Werner Herzog
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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