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There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.
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There's More Substance In My Prose And

Werner Herzog
There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.
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