Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
—Werner Herzog
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
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.
—Werner Herzog
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