"You don't know where the US is standing after a State of the Union Address, but after seeing that film you will know. It's a film on a family behind all that [the pet cemeteries], with all their failures and all their dreams and all their dramas involved. And it's the only authentic film on love and emotion and late capitalism and maybe it's the only authentic film on loss of emotions and distortion of feelings and degeneration of feelings. It's a very, very sad film."
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Source: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, 1980 (a film)
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