For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

Werner Herzog
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  3. The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be. - Alain De Botton

  4. When everything gets answered, it's fake. - Sean Penn

  5. In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God. - Orson Welles

More Quotes By Werner Herzog
  1. Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

  2. Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

  3. What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

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  5. At the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when...

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