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Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

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I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

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I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

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The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

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Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.

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I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.

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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.

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There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Director

Born: September 5th, 1942

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