Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.
Werner HerzogRead
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the absurdity and chaos of existence, comparing it to unfinished and poorly articulated thoughts in a world filled with overwhelming negativity.
Werner Herzog's quote reflects on the chaotic and violent nature of the world, using the metaphor of a jungle to illustrate the raw and primal malice that exists in society. By comparing himself to a 'half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel,' he suggests a sense of incompleteness and a struggle to find meaning or coherence amidst that chaos, lamenting the overwhelming presence of brutality and disarray in human experiences.
In practice
Discussing the challenges of life in a philosophy class.
Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.
Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.
Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.
Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
When you stand up in the morning, you look in the mirror and say, 'I'm black.' No. You wake up and you see yourself as a human being in the world, but you raise discussion and raise aggression, the anger that you confront every day of your life, whether you want to or not.
Every offense is avenged on earth.
Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.
All progression is in the relative world.
The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire
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