Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.
-- Werner Herzog
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
-- Werner Herzog
I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
-- Werner Herzog
Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.
-- Werner Herzog
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
-- Werner Herzog
We are surrounded by worn-out images, and we deserve new ones.
-- Werner Herzog
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