What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based in the work of a team. Anyway, …

- Sam Pressman

Herzog and Malick both have this very unique naturalist intentionality to their process. It's about creating the mood, creating the focus and having …

- Sam Pressman

At one point, we were stuck at the border of Peru and Colombia and met this large Haitian population that was stranded there without passports and co…

- Sam Pressman

Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesc…

- Sam Pressman

It was Herzog, the man himself. He was so welcoming and kind and not at all the persona you'd seen in a magazine, or in "Burden of Dreams" for that m…

- Sam Pressman

Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and not at all driven by ego or championi…

- Sam Pressman

The biggest lesson we took was when Werner [Herzog] said in a meeting with us that the mother of all challenges is to get your film seen in theater. …

- Sam Pressman

There were the classic challenges any tourist faces, like getting lost, getting sick, losing things, getting in a fight... All these things happened …

- Sam Pressman

Because of Walter, we did it the other way around. We also worked with an awesome sound designer named Will Patterson who just worked for four years …

- Sam Pressman