Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
— Werner Herzog Contemporary

Extreme filmmaker, ate his shoe

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Interview, often quoted for its absurdity and insight into his view of nature

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