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Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

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Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

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

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The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

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Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart.

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I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

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I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

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If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.

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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Director

Born: September 5th, 1942

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